“There’s probably a horseshoe theory meme already floating around the darkened corners of social media diagramming the punk-psych schism, starting with the Stooges at the apex and expanding outward—through all the various proto- and post- permutations, all the microgenres either embracing or eschewing electronics, all the levels of preachy idealism and druggy nihilism (or is it druggy idealism and preachy nihilism?)—until it wraps back around to this moment in punk, with a shitty screenshot of the cover of The Drin’s Today My Friend You Drunk the Venom at the bottom. While we can argue over the accuracy of arbitrary taxonomies assembled by anonymous meme accounts, it’d be very hard to build a case against this excellent record—out now on the increasingly indispensable Feel It Records—as anything but an exemplar in its field, an inspired melding of brooding post-punk, expansive kosmische and jangly psychedelia bound to leave a legion of decent-to-good imitations in its wake.”
Read the whole review: http://post-trash.com/news/2023/3/1/the-drin-today-my-friend-you-drunk-the-venom-album-review