{"id":19734,"date":"2020-07-13T10:05:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T17:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=19734"},"modified":"2020-07-13T10:05:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T17:05:31","slug":"new-music-revue-the-real-mckenzies-keep-celtic-punk-alive-on-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2020\/07\/13\/new-music-revue-the-real-mckenzies-keep-celtic-punk-alive-on-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Revue<\/em>: The Real McKenzies keep Celtic punk alive on new album"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Real McKenzies
\nBeer and Loathing
\n<\/em>(Fat Wreck Chords)
\n4.5\/5<\/p>\n

Vancouver punks The Real McKenzies\u2019 11th album,\u00a0Beer and Loathing<\/em>, transforms Celtic punk\u2019s aging horse into a gelding made of bagpipes and distortion.\u00a0Beer and Loathing<\/em>\u00a0comes out like combat boots having gone for a shoemaker\u2019s resole: broken in yet soles new, shiny, and black.<\/p>\n

Vocalist Paul McKenzie spews Bigfoot-printed earworms over a Lion\u2019s Gate Bridge car-stopping, Sasquatch sound. The album\u2019s battle-cry subjects, from murdered Indigenous women and children to forgotten soldiers, take society to task. Renditions of poems by Robert W. Service and Robert Burns prove that McKenzie is Canada\u2019s 21st-century blue-collar, kilt-clad, punk bard.<\/p>\n

The Real McKenzies, fully discontented and fully punk, are in good spirits. If songs like \u201cBeer and Loathing\u201d or \u201cNary Do Gooder\u201d were drinks they\u2019d be boilermakers.<\/p>\n

The only thing wrong with this record is that it\u2019s too short. An easy solution: just play it again. And again. And again. As McKenzie says, it\u2019s our weekend, but it\u2019s The Real McKenzies’ life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Real McKenzies Beer and Loathing (Fat Wreck Chords) 4.5\/5 Vancouver punks The Real McKenzies\u2019 11th album,\u00a0Beer and Loathing, transforms Celtic punk\u2019s aging horse into a gelding made of bagpipes and distortion.\u00a0Beer and Loathing\u00a0comes out like combat boots having gone for a shoemaker\u2019s resole: broken in yet soles new, shiny, and black. Vocalist Paul McKenzie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t