Polythene

Pet Hates EP (Guided Missile):'The first sign that this is the best record in the world ever is the cover, which features a five-year-old skinhead caught in the act of bricking a copper. Cool! The second is the inclusion of a track entitled 'C__ Rock X' - a track so powerful that even the NME dare not spell its name in full! Awesome! What do Polythene sound like? GAAAH! Well, imagine that a mad scientist ripped the space-time continuum a new arsehole and went back in time to another dimension where he discovered a 'good' Huggy Bear. Now, what if that mad scientist then set his controls for Brighton, 1994 in 'our' dimension, where he unleashed the 'good' Huggy Bear, who hogtied and slaughtered our 'evil' Huggy Bear and ate their 'brains' in order to acquire their 'power. That's what Polythene sound like - only madder, shoutier, ruder, rawer, redder and more rabid by a factor of ten. At least. Which is to say it's a bit like Chubby Checker's 'The Twist' played by lobotomised and fingerless chimps on an assortment of aluminium pots and pans in a radioactive rubbish tip while being attacked by giant mutant seagulls ridden by gibbering sex spiders shouting situationist slogans through squealing hamster-wheel dynamo-operated megaphones. And one of them used to be in The Fall. One can only assume she was kicked out for being too mental. For The Fall. Think about it. And tremble.' - Steven Wells NME