Quickly following up last year's highly lauded effort Welfare Jazz , Viagra Boys' third album looks to build on the momentum of buzz received from that record while refining the best elements of their sprawling core sound. Cave World starts out with the snarling, groovy Baby Criminal , a thrilling and electric opener that finds Sebastian Murphy (the American born leader of the Swedish group) wrapping his typically unhinged vocal delivery around the story of a person's evolution from a beautiful baby to a dangerous man; this sinister tale plunges the listener deep into the cutting satire of Cave World , an album that sets out to reflect our dark modern times through the fictional exploits of characters who connive, murder, steal and commit all manner of wrongdoings. Troglodyte keeps the manic groove going, calling out the song's science denying gun owner as someone who wouldn't have been accepted by his fellow apes in pre-evolutionary times; it's a humorous ta...
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