Crisps: Vinyl LP

Label: Breakfast Records
Release Date: 8th November

Did you miss one of the best records of 2023? I did. Getdown Services offer up that deadpan slice of life, that flippant British humour, the mundane inanity of UK, and all with a sound that bounces between dream pop, fuzzy garage rock, primitive hip hop beats and doing that indie sleaze sound better than the other wee lad. 

The final peek into their genre-bending debut album, ‘Evil On Tap’ sees Getdown Services take on that most mythical of
beasts, the incessant banality of evil. Having showcased their more introspective side on ‘I Wish It Didn’t Bother Me’, ‘Evil
Tap’ is a resounding call to arms, a full-throttle hard rock hallelujah against the daily miseries of late stage capitalism. As
vocalist Ben Sadler states:
This song is about the nature of repetition and how it feeds into everyday life. I wrote this song when I was in a
particularly dissatisfied place. Working all the time whilst still not having enough money to cover the essentials is a fairly
standard experience and, as is the culture in the UK, I tend to turn to drinking or reality tv or material goods or whatever
as a distraction which obviously only ends up making things worse. How can there be one fix for 69 million people, and
the fix that’s offered is simply ignore it. That being said there is comfort in repetition and routine, and finding a nice
middle ground with anything is important. The world has evil on tap but learning to stem the flow and bend it, much like
an avatar, is the key to becoming the master of the elements.
Getdown Services have long been known for their raucous live sets, and ‘Evil On Tap’ has long been a tubthumping
favourite of audiences. Although not the only rock’n’roll track on ‘Crisps’, which often barrels through different genres at
breakneck speed, it is perhaps the purest testament to their headbanging roots. But ‘Evil On Tap’ is also hardly out of
place amongst the canny twists and turns of their debut. As expected from previous singles, there’s plenty of their
signature apocalyptic disco, most notably on the title track, but veins of proto-punk, new wave, krautrock, electro and
even gospel also weave through the record, each new experiment giving the listener a little more insight to the arcane,
acrobatic minds of Josh Law and Ben Sadler. It’s the portentous sign of a group determined to make their mark on the UK

music scene, one reinvention at a time.

Tracklist:
1. Crisps
2. Come On
3. Cream Of The Crop
4. Get Back Jamie
5. The Vortex
6. Evil On Tap
7. I Wish It Didn’t Bother Me
8. Helen Back
9. Real Big Hitter
10. Deadly 60
11. Biscuit Tin
12. Loosen Your Belt