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    May 21, 2020 3 minutes

    CUSTARD

    Respect All Lifeforms

    ABC

    Their time in the spotlight may long since have fizzled, but Custard’s quirks shine as bright as ever on album #8 – unequivocally their best post-reunion. The playful, tongue-in-cheek sarcasm and searing wit strike at every turn. The guitars are gristly and groovy and immediately earwormish, frontman Dave McCormack riffing with a buoyant spryness around Paul Medew’s poignantly prickly basslines. The production is tight, yet loose and lowkey, echoing the scrappy

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