Irish noise-making trio Shark School release debut album Selachimorpha next month, and we had to look up what that word meant (the internet says it’s “the scientific superorder for modern sharks, representing a clade of cartilaginous fish within the subclass Elasmobranchii”). The record was announced with a crunchy new guitar-rock crusher called “Don’t Trust A Man,” and well, we need not ask Jeeves what this is all about, as it becomes obvious at first menace. Falling somewhere between Nirvana and Wet Leg, it’s confrontational and jagged, with a controlled chaos that feels about to burst at any point in its 203-second runtime. And it acts as much as a threat than a warning from the Galway trio of Nora Staunton (guitar/vocals), Peggy Ford (bass) and Meg Bruce (drums). “‘Don’t Trust A Man’ is an abrasive and raw track lamenting the desperation for women to comfortably just be; to just exist free of the burden and disappointment of living within a gendered social hierarchy,” the band offer up. Fins up, fucks down.
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