Shit and Shine - The Rabbit Song
There's a lot of bollocks being written about Shit and Shine. As a sludgy noise-rock outfit, some appalling countercultural trendsetters have decided that they need an obvious hook to identify them, to differentiate them from all the other sludgy noise-rock outfits out there. That hook - or, as those in the know call it, that lie - is squalid Englishness. Thus it is that Shit and Shine have become associated with greasy caffs, with Stanley knives, with the uncontrolled violence of closing time. As cultural identities go it's a vivid one.

Heavy on the drums, heavy on the bass, heavy on the distortion: that's the Shit and Shine sound. On The Rabbit Song, the closing track to their 2008 release Cherry, they pound out a filthy riff for 20 solid minutes. And it's that filth that is the key to their sound: the layers of distorted tribal aggression actually sound dangerous. Rock that still remembers how to do that is a rarity. Little wonder then that they manage to attract the hype.

Shit and Shine - The Rabbit Song