{"id":16497,"date":"2025-06-01T10:33:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T09:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/?p=16497"},"modified":"2025-06-02T20:52:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T19:52:47","slug":"totally-wired-monkeypunch-by-the-dirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/totally-wired-monkeypunch-by-the-dirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Totally wired – ‘Monkeypunch’ by The Dirt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Are you angry?\u2019 asks Jack Horner shortly after The Dirt<\/a> launch into \u2018End Game\u2019 the second track on their second album \u2018Monkeypunch\u2019. He clearly is and so should we be too \u2013 if we\u2019re not angry at the state of the country and the world at this point in history we may as well all give up now. The scene has already been set during the intro \u2013 these are dark times requiring resistance and togetherness. What follows is a bizarrely life affirming stomp through modern times, portraying a real darkness, a rough guide to the decaying urban jungle but at the same time projecting hope. It\u2019s a rallying cry and a call to arms but much more than that, it\u2019s also a blistering guitar overload assault on the senses and an album that will propel The Dirt on to great things.<\/p>\n

The husband and wife duo (Jack on words\/vocals, percussion and Sachiko Wakizaka casting spells with guitars and pedals) have been building real \u00a0momentum over the last 18 months or so, spreading the word via regular gigging up and down the country, tirelessly promoting themselves and other DIY acts, promoters, writers and venues on social media and just generally being out there and visible in and around the grass roots music scene. This record feels like the culmination of all that effort, a fitting end to a period of development and the start of the next bout of frantic activity. With this searing, adrenalin rush of an album behind them things will really start happening around this band\u2026<\/p>\n