The Fall, a bizarre pilgrimage, The Stooges, and feeble-minded parasites. THEE HEADSHRINKERS put ‘Head Cheese’ on 2024’s musical menu

DROPPING somewhere between The Fall, and The Stooges, East Sussex’s masked mavericks THEE HEADSHRINKERS have just released debut album, ‘Head Cheese.’

Chaotic and tight in equal measure, it arrives just four months on from a three-day recording session at the home of the ‘Medway sound,’ Ranscombe Studios.

Head Cheese is the title of a short Duane Graves and Justin Meeks film, a graphic account of a deranged man’s unholy psyche on a bizarre pilgrimage to Quick Hill, Texas, to rid his soul of feeble-minded parasites – which probably provides a clue or two to the motivation of the new album, along with the very existence of the Hastings trio, Rob Wilde (stocking/vocs/bass), Gino (balaclava/guitar), and Stiv (dolls head/drums).

The band have been expanding their audiences during 2024, and like their live shows, there’s no theatrics at play on ‘Head Cheese,’ – the songs are short, sharp, attacks the senses, the majority barely passing the two-minute mark, while lyrically, Wilde speaks about misspent youth (Motorbike), drug psychosis (Travellin’ Man), lingering feuds (Going Down), and horror, B movies (Johnny).

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