The Demise Of Planet X

Life can come at you funny. The sun is out, children are smiling, the dogs are making content noises on the floor and then some madman decides he wants Greenland on a stick. Other things, like Jason Williamson's acerbic humour, remain consistent.

"You're not a large, you're a tedium - waist down, waist size feeding them"

Reviews of Planet X in the media tread a predictable line. "A potty-mouthed bystander, baffled and infuriated," says Dave Simpson in The Guardian, a comparison to The Fall by Jim Worth in Mojo, but at least the NME makes an attempt at originality - albeit with the need to introduce the world to the word "sprechgesang".

Twice.

For those of us who actually buy their albums, we don't need to be told about Jason's anger or the source of his ire, we don't need descriptions like "bleak electro throb" or "potty-mouthed bystander".

A Sleaford Mods album delivers our understanding of the world, Planet X encapsulates our feelings of frustration and distain in a way that a Guardian journalist can only relate to in a voyeuristic manner.

"Social media weight watchers collabing with the same old fucking singers"

Planet X is the continued evolution of a band that has created its own niche and will be loved by everyone who has been with the duo on their journey - but then we have all already bought it, we know what we were getting and it doesn't fail to deliver.

The 500 Nottingham versions of the vinyl - gone. The glow-in-the-dark versions - gone. The green vinyl - running out of stock.

Jason told The Big Issue: "I’ve got a lot of low opinions about myself, which I need to change. If I do, then I can get over this idea that I think I’m too old, or people feel that I’m too old for this game."

With sold-out venues for the current tour to match the sold-out records, there's no reason for Williamson to remotely feel imposter syndrome. The combination of cutting lyrics and original beats places the Sleaford Mods as masters of the genre they smashed into side of the music industry.

Buy the album.

Go to a gig.

Tour Dates

• Glasgow Barrowland Ballroom (February 6)

• Manchester Academy (7)

• Leeds O2 Academy (12)

• Liverpool O2 Academy, (13)

• Cardiff Great Hall (14)

• Dublin 3Olympia Theatre (19)

• Belfast Limelight (20)

• Cork Cyprus Avenue (21)

• Oxford O2 Academy (26)

• Nottingham Rock City (27)

• Nottingham Rock City (28)

• Bristol Beacon (March 5)

• Brighton Dome (6)

• London O2 Academy Brixton (7)

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