Received critical acclaim for the “thrillingly ironic satire” of their debut single. Their debut album was eagerly awaited until it became apparent that the members had several far right affiliations (except for the drummer - a card-carrying Liberal Democrat who was completely unaware any of this was going on), and that the album was filled with a staggering number of dogwhistles in everything from lyrics to track lengths, tempos, and time signatures.
The band’s frontman - Chester Betchflip - relished in having “owned the music journo libs” for quite some time, until being unceremoniously dropped from the label and realising that he inexplicably hadn’t budgeted for this (despite having made a hefty down-payment on a solid gold replica World War II U-Boat). At this point he backpedalled on all of this, insisting that everything subsequent had also been a part of the satire and that he was a great admirer of the Situationists. And that if we, as a collective society, read more books, they would have spotted and appreciated all of this