DIGITAL GARBAGE

Vinyl LP pressing housed in a gatefold sleeve, includes digital download. Since the late '80s, Mudhoney u the Seattle-based foursome whose muck-crusted version of rock, shot through with caustic wit and battened down by a ferocious low end u has been a high-pH tonic against the ludicrous and the insipid. Digital Garbage opens with the swaggering oNerve Attack,o which can be heard as a nod both to modern-life anxiety and the ever-increasing threat of warfare. The album's title comes from the outro of oKill Yourself Live,o which segues from a revved-up Arm organ solo into a bleak look at the way notoriety goes viral. Arm says: opeople really seem to find validation in the likesuand then there's Facebook Live, where people have streamed torture and murder, or, in the case of Philando Castile, getting murdered by a cop. In the course of writing that song, I thought about how, once you put something out there online, you canAEt wipe it away. ItAEs always going to be thereueven if no one digs it up, itAEs still out there floating somewhere.o