i sure am getting sick of this bowling alley

Superb selection from Mclusky. The album features four new songs recorded in fall 2025 along with a couple songs from their digital-only comeback ep in 2023. Mclusky are a band who were a band, weren’t a band, then are a band again. they formed in the late nineties and unformed, for the first time, in 2005, after three albums, opinions of which can be found on the internet. The path to re-becoming a band started in 2014, with the band playing sporadic shows to raise money for a local venue threatened with closure and after some misadventures, which can be put down to life in its most wonderful forms, in 2025 they released their first record in twenty years, and now in 2026, they continue with more new music in the form of this 6-song mini album. The timing of this release coincides with a spring 2026 us tour, that is happening after their january aussie run and a slew of other touring from the past year spanning the entire globe. The band’s return has been met with excitement, especially from the press where places liked npr exclaimed “Progressive, weird, snotty post-punk with a real sense of humor and grandiosity. This music is just bursting with creativity” and pitchfork said “Famously explosive live, Mclusky sound just as noisy on their comeback album… Enjoy the ride.”