Legendary rodeo clown turned musical satirist Sloppy Scales’ debut album This Machine Mocks Fascists: The Sloppy Scales Songbook (out Dec. 20) is a hilarious Latin countrypolitan blues-rock bulldogging of the United States’ far-right politics. It’s refreshingly incendiary in its raw condemnation of injustice. It’s modern sad-clown music. It mirrors the humanist perspective of Woody Guthrie while charting Sloppy Scales’ whimsically tragic biographical odyssey to this collection of songs. And, in equal parts, it’s a scathing and inflammatory takedown of radically conservative, bigoted and ultra-nationalist politics. He takes particular aim at Donald J. Trump, the MAGA movement, the overturning of Roe vs. Wade, and, in his opinion, the racist, xenophobic and fear-mongering elements that have ...