Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Bottled in Cork
I have really been enjoying Ted Leo’s latest album, Brutalist Bricks, for the past couple of weeks. It would be really unfair to call the album a return to form, as the man has been making some of the most consistently great pop-punk of any artist in the last decade, but I have already come back to his latest album more than I ever did Living with the Living. Anyone familiar with Ted Leo will know what to expect with the latest album (strongly, politically-tinged pop-punk tracks that can be found here and here), so I wanted to showcase a track that’s a little different. After a rather bizarre intro about the UN, Bottled in Cork bounces along with some great downbeat guitar playing that makes it nearly impossible not to nod your head along to. It’s always a pleasure when one of your favorite artists produces a great album that you actually reach for instead of just going back to the classics and Ted Leo has done just that.
