Album review: Shit Present – What Still Gets Me

Shit Present are not, it would seem, a band who are adept at striking while the iron glows hot. Arriving a full seven years after the Bristolian trio’s last piece of recorded music – the Misery + Disaster EP, itself the successor to 2015’s eponymous five-track debut – What Still Gets Me is an album that has struggled to twist itself into form in anything like a timely manner. One reason for the delay was that vocalist/guitarist Iona Cairns was required to come to terms with a diagnosis of bipolar-disorder, a condition that favours extremes. Put to music, it seems to work like this: ​‘I can fucking destroy you or be your best friend,’ she sings.  Featuring notes of rage, despair and triumph, this 13-song set finds its equilibrium in music that is well-craf...

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