Nasty Party Nasty Party LP
Sydney- and London-based NASTY PARTY, the conjoined brain child of Nasty Simon and Rhys Nasty, put out this LP with all their previously released material. Songs drive straightforward with a RAMONES-core catchiness, mixed with the British snot of Pete Shelley’s vocals. The first listen didn’t capture me, thinking it was some party (I guess their name led me there) Oi!-adjacent kind of band—but with some more focus, I heard a UK ’77 throwback, and really enjoyed it. These songs not only make me want to push around, they’ve also got something to say, like on “Strum & Drang” where they sing “You got social media influencers, the parasitic elite / I’ve never seen such a worthless pimple on society’s ass cheek.” Plenty of social commentary abounds in his thirteen-track LP that is as fun as it is poignant.