They released Eton Alive via their own label, Extreme Eating Records, returning to Rough Trade for the compilation All That Glue in 2020 - and, now, Spare Ribs. The Mods have been bringing their blend of beats and acerbic spoken word-esque lyrics to fans since 2007, breaking out with their Rough Trade debut, English Tapas, in 2017. Spare Ribs - the follow-up to 2019’s Eton Alive - was recorded at JT Soar Studios in Nottingham and marks the band’s 11th studio album. The band worked their way through these feelings of confusion and despair with songs like “Out There” (which deals with the sci-fi nature of the pandemic), “Top Room” (about being stuck at home with your family and your thoughts), and “Short Cummings” (deriding Dominic Cummings, chief adviser to U.K. But apart from that, generally, we were just really frustrated with the politics of everything, and obviously the domestic situation of being in the house all the time.
So, it was concerning as to how that would pan out. “It was quite clear that the entertainment sector was going to be halted, obviously, because people can’t get together to go and watch bands live, and that’s where our income is, live music, gigging, touring it’s where we make our money. “Nobody knew what was going to go on,” he tells Rolling Stone of when the virus hit the U.K. In the midst of a pandemic - and ample political and social turmoil - who better to release new music than Nottingham electro-punks the Sleaford Mods? Spare Ribs is out on January 15th, but you can watch the video for “Mork N Mindy” - directed by Ben Wheatley ( Rebecca) - right now.Īlthough a few songs on the record - including “Mork N Mindy” - were written pre-Covid-19, frontman Jason Williamson counts the pandemic and lockdown as inspiration for most of the tracks.
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