#261/1386
June 1986
The Mekons
Edge of the World
Genre: Rock
4.25 out of 5
Highlights:
Garage D’Or
Big Zombie
With a name like “Mekons” I always had expected this band to be some new wave, sci fi alien invasion thing and I could not have been more wrong. And I took some flack last year for not really liking their previous record more than just a pretty good alt-country offering.
Edge of the World is better. It’s more mature but also a bit more ramshackle. It’s heavily celtic (to me, at least, but what do I know?). It’s Pogues-ish but never too deeply drunkenly Irish.
While I’m not really highlighting all that much there isn’t a clunker here. It’s all very competent and enjoyable. Once I’ve heard it, I don’t need any more.
I wanna love the Mekons. Instead, I just shrug my shoulders and said, okie doke, that was a record.
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