Arriving as the follow-up to 2021’s A Matter Of Life & Love, a freewheeling record that paid homage to all the greatest things in life, Shanty Punk goes one further with a riotous reflection upon the journey that has defined Skinny Lister as a band. A record full of drunken tales that beg to be told, like that time frontman Daniel Heptinstall got in above his head in an arm-wrestling competition in Dresden (Arm Wrestling In Dresden) and the pickle the band found themselves in after hiring the wrong driver for a US Tour (Pittsburgh Punch Up). Elsewhere, the album features Down On The Barrier, an arena-sized ripper that finds Skinny Lister worshiping at the immortal altar of live music via pogo-primed percussion, Pogues-y punk hooks, and a chorus that demands to be roared-out loud ...
