His Lordship Bored Animal Vinyl LP 2025

Tracklist:

1. Bored Animal
2. Marc-Andre Léclerc
3. Old Romantic
4. Johnny Got No Beef
5. Derek E. Fudge
6. Downertown
7. 12-12-21
8. Weirdo in the Park
9. The Sadness of King Kong
10. I Fly Planes Into Hurricanes
11. Gin and Fog

Following last year’s explosive, no frills self-titled debut album, in keeping with the fast-paced punk rock spirit that’s His Lordship’s creed, today the potent two-piece return with new single ‘I Fly Planes Into Hurricanes’. Clocking in at just a little over two minutes, ‘I Fly Planes Into Hurricanes’ is a fiery single, combining hotrodding riffs with shambolic drums and fuzzed-out guitar. Hurtling along at breakneck speed, it’s a taster of what to expect from the band’s second album Bored Animal, which will spring from the traps on 20 June. Conceived and recorded live in under two weeks at Edwyn Collins’ studio in the Highlands of Scotland, with engineer Sean Reed and mixed by David Wrench (Manic Street Preachers, Let’s Eat Grandma, Blur, Baxter Dury), for Bored Animal His Lordship decided to streamline their sound—forgoing things like harmonies, a rockabilly influence, and songs over four minutes long—and didn’t worry about making the music perfect. The resultant album crams multiple ideas into its 11 concise songs. On opening title track, clanging guitars and drums rattle the speakers before the song takes off like a screaming bottle rocket. From there, guitarist/vocalist James Walbourne and drummer Kris Sonne race through ferocious songs with clever lyrics, which lean into scorching rock ‘n’ roll (the abrasive ‘Old Romantic’, needling ‘Downertown’), distorted punk (the ramshackle ‘Marc-Andre Léclerc’), tornadic noise rock (‘Weirdo in the Park’), throttling garage-blues riffs and feral howls (sub-three-minute ‘The Sadness of King Kong’), and even psychedelic fantasias (‘Derek E. Fudge’).