Dirtnap US Vinyl & CDs

Review: Birthed from a chance encounter between Irish-born Count Vaseline/The Mighty Stef songwriter Stef Murphy and Stiff Little Fingers guitar tech Jamie Mechan in Nashville, Tennessee; the pair would quickly strike up a creative partnership that would ultimately culminate in The Sleeveens (Irish for "trickster"). Enlisting Ryan Sweeney (Cheap Time) and Eli Steele (Sweet Knives) to round out the line-up, the newfound old school punk outfit are set to kick off 2024 in the most retrospective manner possible with 11 cuts breathing with the classic style popularised by labels such as Chiswick, New Rose and Stiff Records almost a half-century ago. Energetic, angst-riddled, fuzzed-out mayhem emboldened by earworm hooks and intelligent, witty and immensely endearing penmanship.