The Locust – New Erections (2007)

December 28, 2022

In 2007 locust released what would be their final studio album to date. It’s actually incredible how much time has passed since this final studio album and it still even now feels kinda weird to be talking about the band in the past tense.

Even from the first few notes, you can tell that New Erections is a different beast to what has come before. The record is full of the bleeping blooping batshit crazy synthesizer madness that we know and love, but the overall tone is different. To say that the pace is slower would be incorrect I think, but the more spacious passages on Safety Second Body Last indeed were portents of what was to come with New Erections.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s still under 25 minutes long, which is a bit cheeky for a full length, but this is still grindcore in some capacity so it gets a pass.

I remember New Erections getting a bit of stick at the time of release, I was heavily involved in the MySpace cyber grind scene and there was a lot of chatter about how the songs on New Erections were too long or, New Erections wasn’t as crazy as the older stuff. All of which is complete nonsense, if you give this album a few minutes of your time you’ll soon realise it’s just as boundary pushing as anything else the band ever did, but is just a slightly different flavour.