The Minneapolis Uranium Club – “Small Grey Man” 
Been a little while since I last head from the great Minneapolis Uranium Club and it’s great to see the band roaring back with a new bout of bile for 2024. The band’s strain of punk cantering into post-punk has always had a vitality to it. It’s the sound of society unraveling, the sound of the hedges getting hackles as the city streets contort and crumble. The band adds a bit of tarnished grandeur to their sound, letting a plume of brass grow behind the rhythms and rankled riffs. Opener, “Small Grey Man” has a funereal march to it, with a prison tattoo of percussion that underscores the song’s opening. The cut slashes and sloshes, but rises to a glorious finish that’s definitely a new color on the band, pushing aside their past entropy for a song that laces their cutting criticism with a malevolent gaze. Infants Under The Bulb is out March 1st from Anti-Fade and Static Shock.