Scumbag Philosopher - It Means Nothing So It Means Nothing

Words On Music presents It Means Nothing So It Means Nothing – the debut album by the English post-punk quartet Scumbag Philosopher. The nine-song record's rhythmic frame of stabbing basslines and a sparse, but ferocious, two-drum kit anchors the kind of angular, buzzing guitars found on early Wire or Gang of Four records. Call and response vocals between Grant Madden's soliloquizing baritone and drummer Anne Reekie's alto siren skewer popular and consumerist culture with alternating sincerity and sardonicism befitting its punk origins. "Tickbox Exercise" launches the record with a commentary on bureaucratic culture and its senseless evaluative processes whilst Jon Burke lays down a bed of chaotic buzz-saw guitars. Bassist Adam Green's unrelenting basslines, Burke's looping guitar melodies, and Reekie's cunning rhythms infuse songs like "I Like Sums" with a post-punk sensibility found in the grooves of albums like Gang of Four's Entertainment. On "Your Heroes at Home," Madden pours a g