It says much about the bitter state of modern life that London band Parallel Animals were frustrated in their ambitions to release this starkly-titled single at Christmas by Malcolm Middleton’s similarly cheery Yuletide hit We’re All Gonna Die.
Such a sentiment ought not to go to waste though now it’s a more appropriate Easter release. As you might suspect, the song’s vicious wish is unleashed in an amusingly up tempo fashion, shuffling between boogie-woogie, country and pop in a simple, yet clever way. Like Supergrass playing for tips in a honky tonk bar.
