{"id":8109,"date":"2026-01-16T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/sleaford-mods-still-have-plenty-to-be-angry-about\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:30:00","slug":"sleaford-mods-still-have-plenty-to-be-angry-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/sleaford-mods-still-have-plenty-to-be-angry-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleaford Mods Still Have Plenty To Be Angry About\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2026\/01\/sleaford-mods-x.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" alt=\"'The Demise of Planet X'\"><figcaption>&#8216;The Demise of Planet X&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It only takes 33 seconds for Jason Williamson to drop an F-bomb on \u201cThe Good Life,\u201d the first track from <em>The Demise of Planet X<\/em>, Sleaford Mods\u2019 first record in three years. This latest record, released January 16, isn\u2019t much of a departure from the duo\u2019s signature sound: Williamson furiously yelping and rapping over Andrew Fearn\u2019s driving electronic beats. For a group that has always trafficked in anger, a world unraveling into chaos is perfect fodder for a Sleaford Mods record.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For American listeners, Sleaford Mods\u2019 music could be a head-shaking conundrum. Williamson often focuses on issues relevant to British listeners. Some of his slang (like \u201cminging\u201d)\u2014as well as his affinity for the word \u201ccunt\u201d\u2014might get lost in translation. But if you live on the west side of the Atlantic, there are plenty of more familiar pop culture references (Pete Davidson, Don Draper, and more) to dig into.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/01\/the-26-most-influential-people-in-music-in-2026\/\">The 26 Most Influential People in Music in 2026\u00a0<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/01\/5-albums-i-cant-live-without-ryan-key-of-yellowcard\/\">5 Albums I Can\u2019t Live Without: Ryan Key of\u00a0Yellowcard\u00a0<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/01\/the-sha-la-das-stay-in-the-picture\/\">The Sha La Das Stay in the Picture\u00a0<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sleaford Mods is one of those bands that felt fully formed upon inception, and over the past two decades, any changes to that configuration have been subtle. Despite that, <em>The Demise of Planet X<\/em> feels a bit more polished than prior releases. Williamson and Fearn did the bulk of the recording at their regular studio JT Soar in Nottingham, but additional time at Abbey Road Studios and Invada Studios helped sharpen the edges of Fearn\u2019s typically pithy production.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The duo also expands its palette by including guest features on five tracks. Gwendoline Christie (of \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d) fame turns in an unhinged, expletive-filled rant on \u201cThe Good Life,\u201d while Sue Tompkins from Life Without Buildings adds a nagging vocal to the gauzy \u201cNo Touch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand indie-folk singer Aldous Harding appears on \u201cElitest G.O.A.T.,\u201d perhaps the best and most immediate track on <em>The Demise of Planet X. <\/em>After a m\u00e9lange of punchy piano lines, Fearn\u2019s stabbing bass, and Williamson\u2019s syncopated ranting, Harding\u2019s vocals on the chorus serve as a roomy balm for this driving track. By occasionally removing the focus from Williamson\u2019s man-yells-at-clouds rapping, the guest spots work to make his shouting even more powerful.<em>The Demise of Planet X <\/em>can still rile up the duo\u2019s British fans, even though the country has turned away from far-right politics. Things have gone in a different direction here in the United States, and Williamson knows that our politics have a global reach. On lead single \u201cMegaton,\u201d the frontman shouts, \u201cWhat form of murder do you want?\u201d We live in a precarious time. Hopefully we\u2019re not moving towards a period where, as Williamson puts it, there\u2019s \u201cno war, no death, no point when there\u2019s no fucker left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The Demise of Planet X&#8217; It only takes 33 seconds for Jason Williamson to drop an F-bomb on \u201cThe Good Life,\u201d the first track from The Demise of Planet X,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,88,3774],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pushly","category-reviews","category-sleaford-mods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}