★Index Clean

"I was almost seventeen when 'Scum' came out, lurching through my headphones sandwiched between John Peel’s warm gravy groans. It flipped me out. My punker brain, pretty much allergic to anything metal, made a series of damp connections that lodged the chaotic buzzing insect rumble in my mind forever. Thirty-odd years later this record still sounds urgent and furiously angry. It sounds more important than ever. I decided I wanted to do ‘something’ with Scum in late 2023. I listened to the record…