Thrill Collins: Difficult Listening

Thrill Collins

Difficult Listening

(Independent/Bandcamp)

It’s with a Mark E. Smith-like sneer that Minister Smith, the opening track on Thrill Collins’ new EP, Difficult Listening, is drawled-spat into place. Where post-punk guitar grind and angry polemic is the order of the day, Thrill Collins sounds like Violent Femmes covering Pere Ubu, like Wire slumm…