The redneck fuckers from Jacksonville finally dropped their long awaited new album on Halloween, with relatively little fanfare. Still Sucks is pure 100% self-trollin’ in only the way Limp Bizkit can. Their first album in a decade, and long tentatively titled Stampede of the Disco Elephants. Still Sucks sounds like it was written and recorded in a single afternoon when they just stumbled into a recording studio. But in a good way, when the creative juices get flowing and it feels natural.
Fred Durst is an absolute master at playing the game, and Limp Bizkit know just how to pull a genius move. Lead single Dad Vibes, shortly following the debut of that now infamous new look for Fred Durst was pure PR gold. For a band that garners such absolute unadulterated vitriol across the board, their ability to constantly stay relevant is legendary. And they know it all too well. Hell, even their superstar guitarist isn’t a fan of their music! But that is simply more fuel to their fire.
Opening track Out Of Style and Dirty Rotten Bizkit remind us all that resident costumed madman Wes Borland is the crowned king of Nu-metal axe-work, with his signature heavy bendy riffs. Love The Hate is a little too on the nose, but the self-own diss track is a welcome sprinkling of nonsense. A surprise industrial turn with Pill Popper takes shots straight at the global pharmaceutical giants – inspired by recent world events perhaps?
Even the album cover looks like someone sketched it on a napkin on a night out on the sauce. It’s glorious. Barnacle and Snackypoo are just straight up weird. A cover of INXS‘s Don’t Change pops up out of nowhere mid way through the album, completely changing the mood. It’s a sharp change in tone, but it kind of just fits in with an album that almost sounds like a mixed collection of b-sides than a coherent album.
At a whisker over 32 minutes the album flies by. But you will be quickly heading straight back for more of the glorious nonsense. It may have been a decade in the making, but it’s their most important album in over 2 decades. It’s weird, rushed, messy and disjointed. But like the very band that created the disarray, it’s impossible to turn away. Limp Bizkit Still Sucks, and quite evidently, they don’t give a fuck.
Score 8/10
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