Viagra Boys Announce New Album viagr aboys
The Stockholm band’s fourth album arrives April 25 via their recently launched label Shrimptech Enterprises. Listen to “Man Made of Meat” below.
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Could there be a more fitting time for a new Viagra Boys record? Amidst the current wave of political strife and the general absurdity of life in 2025, sometimes the best (and only) thing to do is to take a step back and admire the chaos. Frontman and vocalist Sebastian Murphy always seems to revel in this mayhem, satirically poking fun at the million and one ways in which society is going down the drain. Now, the post-punk band is back and armed with 11 new tracks, announcing their fourth album, viagr aboys, due out April 25 via their newly minted label Shrimptech Enterprises, and they just released the existential lead single, “Man Made of Meat.”
Co-produced by longtime collaborator Pelle Gunnerfeldt along with the Viagra Boys sextet, viagr aboys is an album braced against every irrationally up-in-arms focus group while redirecting the blame out towards an empty void (purposefully, I might add). Keeping a finger on the pulse in pop culture can be creatively debilitating, and after the group’s 2022 album Cave World mocked the alarming influx of conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers still milling over the idea of a rigged election and the COVID pandemic, Murphy escaped inward to find artistic solace. “The whole political thing was exhausting,” he said in a press release. “This is like a self-titled album but a bit simple and stupid—because that’s how I am.”
Viagra Boys don’t take themselves too seriously and they never claim to have all the answers, but I certainly wouldn’t call their music “stupid.” Murphy and the band simply hold a mirror up to the world around them, plainly calling out its contradictions. The brilliance of Viagra Boys’s music is its unadulterated self-awareness, its levity and its vital punk rock attitude.
Their latest single, “Man Made of Meat,” is but another example of this. Inspired by Murphy’s experience wandering through Walmarts while on tour with Queens of the Stone Age, the track teases mothers on OnlyFans and exposes his desire to get free women’s L.L. Bean sweaters. The lyrics are laughably farcical, but paired with the song’s upbeat pace and heavy, crackling guitars, it’s impossible not to nod along.
