DIGITAL GARBAGE

Since the late 80s Mudhoney - the Seattle-based foursome whose muck-crusted version of rock shot through with caustic wit and battened down by a ferocious low end - has been a high-pH tonic against the ludicrous and the insipid. Digital Garbage opens with the swaggering quot;Nerve Attack quot; 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 quot;Kill Yourself Live quot; which segues from a revved-up Arm organ solo into a bleak look at the way notoriety goes viral. Arm says: quot;people really seem to find validation in the likes-and 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 can t wipe it away. It s always going to be there-even if no one digs it up it s still out there floating somewhere.quot;.