This new sound is fast-paced and aggressive, and could not be more lyrically different. For example, take Wessex Boy, a song about growing up in leafy Winchester. Compare this with the first song Mongol Horde wrote, a track about 'Natalie Portman's tapeworm using her as a glove puppet to lead an uprising in Hollywood' and you know something is different.
Taking musical inspiration from Jesus Lizard, Hot Snakes and McLusky, Turner describes the new sound as 'depraved'. Nothing could be more different from his three-song performance at the London 2012 opening ceremony. After releasing an effective ode to England with his album England Keep My Bones, he was the perfect candidate to open the Olympic Games with his backing band The Sleeping Souls.
He described his pre-performance anticipation by saying: 'Being asked to play the Opening Ceremony was something I never imagined was going to happen in my wildest most feverish dreams; but the fact that Danny Boyle asked me personally, as a fan, convinced me to do it. It's a pretty terrifying prospect, but I'm secretly pretty happy to be part of it, it's a once-in-a-lifetime thing.'
You can listen to Mongol Horde's first song, Casual Threats From Weekend Hardmen, below.
Taking musical inspiration from Jesus Lizard, Hot Snakes and McLusky, Turner describes the new sound as 'depraved'. Nothing could be more different from his three-song performance at the London 2012 opening ceremony. After releasing an effective ode to England with his album England Keep My Bones, he was the perfect candidate to open the Olympic Games with his backing band The Sleeping Souls.
He described his pre-performance anticipation by saying: 'Being asked to play the Opening Ceremony was something I never imagined was going to happen in my wildest most feverish dreams; but the fact that Danny Boyle asked me personally, as a fan, convinced me to do it. It's a pretty terrifying prospect, but I'm secretly pretty happy to be part of it, it's a once-in-a-lifetime thing.'
You can listen to Mongol Horde's first song, Casual Threats From Weekend Hardmen, below.
