The $hit - Lock Up Your Ghettoblasters!!!

by Adam Anonymous

‘Lock Up Your Ghettoblasters!!!’ before they get speaker raped

""The future is here, except it sounds like the past, and the current, and lots of superfluous bollocks that should never have been committed to tape in the first place""

The future is here, except it sounds like the past, and the current, and lots of superfluous bollocks that should never have been committed to tape in the first place.

So it’s an easy (anti-)culture reference, but anybody who caught the haircut crowd-baiting Nathan Barley might be familiar with The $hit’s ilk. “Terrorists are gaaaaaaay!” screamed the ultra-trendy Selfish Cunt-lampooning electro soundtrack to a dreadfully self-involved film screening. It could quite easily have been directed at this undercooked bag of misguided anarchic intentions (see also: Crack Village). Leave Shoreditch bars or art school discos and you might get laughed outta town, ladies and gentlemen.

For a start, the sound levels are so bad that even once you’ve switched your stereo literally up to 11 – ours goes to 24, dicks – ‘Lock Up Your Ghettoblasters!!!’ is tin can trebly and ready to once again prove some level of recording knowledge usually aids any given album.

Most of all, the biggest teeth-gnawingly irritating conundrum is The $hit’s rhetoric, if it can even be labelled so eloquently. Branding themselves revolutionary while pissing out toy versions of beats Digital Hardcore would’ve dismissed as hammy 10 years ago hardly helps. But in their oh-so-clever are they/aren’t they ironic posing, they end up becoming everything they seemingly set out to smash. The songs? Don’t let us cause further embarrassment by exposing lyrics equally pointless as any of the chart crap The $hit are aiming to counteract.

‘Lock Up Your Ghettoblasters!!!’ before they get speaker raped…

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