I had no idea the Viagra Boys were Swedish.
I first heard them during a YouTube rabbit-hole dive in ’21 that yielded Ain’t Nice and Girls & Boys off Welfare Jazz, two tracks that featured on my then-Anytime Fitness workout playlist (this was prior to realizing that audiobooks were a far better use of my physical training time). Ain’t Nice in particular resonated, regardless of whether it’s an anti-toxic masculinity statement or not. I used to be that guy that Sebastian Murphy was shouting about.
viagr aboys came as a pleasant surprise—thank you, Apple Music iPhone notifications—in the midst of a manic self-study push in the week of freedom between the end of nine years of university and the start of “data refinement.” Man Made of Meat, Uno II, and Pyramid of Health are all excellent tracks that straddle the line between phlegm-laced punk and actual pop.
And yeah, I too feel like a bitch when I talk about politics.
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