Culture | MusicSkunk Anansie – Anarchytecture, album review: ‘jarring’Monster riffs and beige ballads sit side-by-side on the band’s latest LPClunking: Skunk Anansie's third album since their revival doesn't quite hang togetherAndre Paine15 January 2016Shaven-headed Skin from Skunk Anansie stood apart from the blokeish Britpop scene, though the band’s mildly transgressive hard rock didn’t quite make her a star.Skunk Anansie - AnarchytectureTwenty years on she’s found a TV perch as an X Factor judge in Italy, as well as knocking out a third Skunk Anansie album since their 2010 revival.The horrible portmanteau title is reflected in the record’s jarring combination of big guitars and lurking synths.In the Back Room is dispiriting disco, while the clunking electro-rock of Love Someone Else sounds like a band who should never have left the Nineties.Read MoreDaughter - Not to Disappear, album reviewPanic! At the Disco - Death of a Bachelor, album reviewSkin’s fruitier lyrics (“She smells sublime, of sex and wine”) now seem tame. Even the monster riffs on Suckers! can’t compensate for the album’s beige ballads.Perhaps it will be big in Italy, though.(Spinefarm)MORE ABOUTAlbum Review
