Album artwork for Welfare Jazz by Viagra Boys
Album artwork for Welfare Jazz by Viagra Boys
Album artwork for Welfare Jazz by Viagra Boys
Album artwork for Welfare Jazz by Viagra Boys

Since their founding in 2015, Swedish post-punk band Viagra Boys have made a name for themselves burning up stages around the world. There's a little Iggy Pop spit and seethe, a David Yow drunken stumble, and a bite of Nick Cave's haunted bark. Add a dash of motorik groove, a pinch of post-punk grime, and a dose of no wave howl.

For every gruff and gritty croak in the outfit's catalog, they come back with a pair of bongos, squared-off synths, and a squonky saxophone, with songs that deftly lay waste to society's normalization of toxic masculinity, racism, misogyny, classism, and self-obsession.

Viagra Boys' Sebastian Murphy dreams about everyone hating his guts. A lot. "I kept having this recurring nightmare where my mom was crying and my friends were all pissed off at me," he recalls, almost reverently.

The band's new album, Welfare Jazz, doesn't bargain with the anxiety in that defeated feeling, but rather a boiling certainty that nothing and no one is absolute. There's plenty of blame to go around, and things are just a lot more interesting when you admit that you're not always going to be nice, you're not always going to pick the right words in a fist-fight. So why not keep moving forward, swaying and strutting into the night.

LP++ - Bonus CD

Girls & Boys (Patrik Berger Remix) / Dream Interlude / You And Me Baby / Blue Bone / 16 Wheeler Horse / Ain't Nice feat. Shrimptech Ecstasy Lab (Rotterdam Mix) / Creatures feat. Shrimptech Ecstasy Lab (Someones's Great Version)

Viagra Boys

Welfare Jazz

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Album artwork for Welfare Jazz by Viagra Boys
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£22.99

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Released 22/07/2022Catalogue Number

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Album artwork for Welfare Jazz by Viagra Boys
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Album artwork for Welfare Jazz by Viagra Boys
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Viagra Boys

Welfare Jazz

YEAR0001
Album artwork for Welfare Jazz by Viagra Boys
LP +

£22.99

LP++ - New Pressing with Bonus CD

Black
Includes bonus disc
Released 22/07/2022Catalogue Number

YR0123LPXX

Learn more
Album artwork for Welfare Jazz by Viagra Boys
CD

£14.99

exclusive

Jewel Case with 4 Page Booklet.

Rough Trade Exclusive
Released 08/01/2021Catalogue Number

YR0123CD

Learn more
Album artwork for Welfare Jazz by Viagra Boys
LP

£22.99

Black
Released 08/01/2021Catalogue Number

YR0123LP

Learn more

Since their founding in 2015, Swedish post-punk band Viagra Boys have made a name for themselves burning up stages around the world. There's a little Iggy Pop spit and seethe, a David Yow drunken stumble, and a bite of Nick Cave's haunted bark. Add a dash of motorik groove, a pinch of post-punk grime, and a dose of no wave howl.

For every gruff and gritty croak in the outfit's catalog, they come back with a pair of bongos, squared-off synths, and a squonky saxophone, with songs that deftly lay waste to society's normalization of toxic masculinity, racism, misogyny, classism, and self-obsession.

Viagra Boys' Sebastian Murphy dreams about everyone hating his guts. A lot. "I kept having this recurring nightmare where my mom was crying and my friends were all pissed off at me," he recalls, almost reverently.

The band's new album, Welfare Jazz, doesn't bargain with the anxiety in that defeated feeling, but rather a boiling certainty that nothing and no one is absolute. There's plenty of blame to go around, and things are just a lot more interesting when you admit that you're not always going to be nice, you're not always going to pick the right words in a fist-fight. So why not keep moving forward, swaying and strutting into the night.

LP++ - Bonus CD

Girls & Boys (Patrik Berger Remix) / Dream Interlude / You And Me Baby / Blue Bone / 16 Wheeler Horse / Ain't Nice feat. Shrimptech Ecstasy Lab (Rotterdam Mix) / Creatures feat. Shrimptech Ecstasy Lab (Someones's Great Version)