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Mclusky’s ‘The World Is Still Here and So Are We’: Two Cent Review for Knotfest’s Best LPs of 2025

Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags on 01/06/2026 by Kurt Orzeck

Mclusky didn’t have a concept for The World Is Still Here and So Are We, but the message is clear, with Falco sending up British politicians and commoners in general for their corrupt and lazy approaches to governance and engagement, respectively. Read my new review at Knotfest.com, my original take on Mclusky’s The World Is Still Here and So Are We from earlier this year on Treble and my interview with Mclusky for FLOOD surrounding their album release.

Don’t miss these two other roundups either:

• Friends of The Bad Penny Share Their Top 10 Lists of 2025 Best Albums
• Boise Friends of The Bad Penny Share Their 2025 Top 10 Lists

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The Bad Penny’s Top 50 Best LPs of 2025, Pt. 5: Deafheaven, Orbit Culture, Agriculture, Mclusky, Messa

Posted in Lists with tags , , , , , , , , , on 01/06/2026 by Kurt Orzeck

A lot of fucked-up up shit happened in the U.S. this year. Way, way too much of it. For many of us Americans who actually carry values in our hearts instead of bloviating about them or slapping bumper stickers on our monster trucks, it was almost too much to bear.

Fortunately, 2025 also saw the release of a staggering number of stellar records, which made the year a little more … well, bearable. Hence, for the first time ever, The Bad Penny is deviating from its usual annual tradition of limiting out favorite listens to just 10 and breaking them into a five-part series containing 10 records per installment.

What follows is the fifth and final batch. (Go here for The Bad Penny‘s favorite albums, #11 through #20; here for  #21 through #30; here for #31 through #40; and here for #41 through #50.)

1. Deafheaven – Lonely People With Power (Roadrunner)

• Deafheaven Frontman Dives Deep Into Each Song on New LP
• From the Vault: Deafheaven’s 2017 Tour Setlists and First-Ever Show in Boise – An Analysis

2. Orbit Culture – Death Above Life (Century Media)

• Orbit Culture Try To Keep Momentum Going With Next LP

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Post-Trash Publishes My List of 2025’s Top 20 Best Records

Posted in Lists with tags , , , , , , , , , on 12/20/2025 by Kurt Orzeck

Thanks to Post-Trash for posting my top 20 favorite records of the year as part of its staff picks roundup.

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Father John Misty, Drug Church, White Reaper, Mclusky Confirmed for Boise’s Treefort Music Fest

Posted in News with tags , , , , , , , , , on 10/16/2025 by Kurt Orzeck

Treefort Music Fest organizers on Thursday announced the first wave of music talent confirmed to participate in the 2026 installment of Boise’s biggest and best music festival, and it’s a doozy.

The headliners for each night of the four-day music blowout will be flipturn (Thursday), Magdalena Bay (Friday), Geese (Saturday) and Father John Misty (Sunday). Hannibal Buress and Joe Pera will anchor the festival’s comedy lineup.

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Mclusky Says They ‘Didn’t Have a Plan’ for Zany New Album

Posted in Interviews with tags on 06/09/2025 by Kurt Orzeck

Still hooked on the outlandish, ostentatious and even outrageous new album by Mclusky—the British post-hardcore trio’s first in over 20 years? Tag along with vocalist/guitarist Andy Falkous as he gives FLOOD insights into each track on the propulsive, attention-demanding The World Is Still Here and So Are We.

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Mclusky’s ‘World Is Still Here and So Are We’: Two Cent Review

Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags on 05/10/2025 by Kurt Orzeck

With age comes wisdom, perspective—and, in the case of the iconoclastic vocalist/guitarist Andy “Falco” Falkous—a practically equal balance between focusing on what’s at stake and the absurdity of what the West has become. Read my review of The World Is Still Here and So Are We, the latest record by his band Mclusky, on Treble.

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