After making us wait for three and a half years for a brand-new full-length album, Drug Church present us with just over 26 minutes of music. And it’s so good that it’s been absolutely worth the wait. Good things come in small packages, it seems, as Hygiene rattles by in a blur. No song outstays its welcome and there’s not an ounce of filler or flab to be shed. Despite its lean frame there’s a lot going on across the ten tracks on offer. The hardcore rasp and grunge swells from 2018’s outstanding Cheer are still recognisably present and correct but Drug Church are an increasingly broad church here. Fun’s Over kicks things off with a Pixies-esque dynamic pulse while Plucked struts and spasms on jerky new wave riffs and peals of feedback. Detective Lieutena...
