Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Purchasable with gift card
£1GBP or more
about
Around 2010 people were spotted out in public wearing ‘Frankie says relax’ tee-shirts, this was a call back to a vapid and empty period of the 80s aesthetic where big slogan tees and garish nu-rave colours were dominating the Music Scene once again. What was good about that? Well for one you could identify easily the fashion victims among us. Now in 2021 and for the past few years, we’ve seen what we call the ‘ROLL EM UP AND TUCK IT IN’ crowd. Instagram obsessed and self-absorbed, its increasingly difficult to spot a scenester since they cleverly adopted the mediocre clobber of the 90’s throwback hipster. Big slogan tees have been replaced with Nirvana Hoodies or chest prints of a monochrome photo of downtown L.A. Now your average dweeb cultivates a beard in place of a personality and is more likely to have a ‘live, laugh, love’ print on their kitchen wall than an authentic thought in there bean. I remember a time when if I saw a bloke with a full sleeve or neck tattoo id think he was a bit of a wrongun or thug, now I think most likely you’re a Barista or work in sales for a successful media start-up. it’s a veneer or a uniform for those with little to know genuine taste or interests. There’s always been the zeitgeist teens and disciples of fashion of course, and i love that, true individualism expressed however the fuck you want. Importantly though…the mods, teddy boys, ravers, grunge kids even the nu-metal nerds were all original. I feel what Frankie goes to Hollywood fans must of felt back in 2010 when their youth was re-pressed and hung on the Primark rails to sell to the budding neck beards of the world.
The spirit of Grunge and the 90s counter-culture was pure and probably the last Bastian of true youth movements, free from judgemental prying eyes as it was for decades previous, before the days of insta, tiktok etc when you could act a fool and not be recorded and publicly shamed the day after, illegal raves weren’t traced on google maps or hosted on Facebook events, instead it was a secretive cult you were excited to be part of, true abandon
The Birdman Cult has a simple remedy to help along this slippery road of wannabes, where rebellion is a hashtag and people covet likes and follows more than self-expression, take a deep breath, roll em up and Tuck it in, get amongst it and don’t be afraid to look a fool
lyrics
LYRICS
ROLL EM UP & TUCK IT IN
Oh…Are you a bloke if you don’t stick and poke?
You go bespoke for all the fickle folk
And if you got em you should
Roll ‘Em Up And Tuck It In (X2)
Oh…I had that Umbro top when I was ten
It isn’t hip and nar it wasn’t then
And I you got em you should
Roll ‘Em Up And Tuck It In (X2)
Like me, im like you
See im original too
Monkey see, monkey do
So…You wanna stand there at the back and pose
Your arms folded in your fancy cloths
I guess your set because you
Roll ‘Em Up And Tuck It In
Roll ‘Em Up And Tuck It In
See…I got the recipe for being free
No uniform conventionality
And still I might just go and
Roll ‘Em Up And Tuck It In (X2)
Like me, im like you
See im original too
Monkey see, monkey do
she’s so pretty, he’s so cool
So together, so untrue…
she’s so pretty, he’s so cool
So together, so untrue…
Like me, im like you
See im original too
Monkey see, monkey do
Bro…Your about as unique as the rest of them
your working hard to seem so effortless
Always conforming to the
Roll ‘Em Up And Tuck It In (X2)
You…You think its cool to keep it on the low
Your feeling safe inside the status quo
Go find a line to toe and
Roll ‘Em Up And Tuck It In (X2)
credits
released May 5, 2021
‘Roll Em Up And Tuck It In’ as with their previous,
releases, ‘Janet‘, Snakes’ and Time was produced by Chris Ellul of ‘The Heavy’
This Oakland group pulls no punches, serving up a hard-hitting punk album that recalls the blistering brilliance of Refused. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 8, 2020
Brooklyn's Groupie make post-punk that is at turns bouncy, scuzzy, joyous, and sharp, with a strong melodic core; this is their debut LP. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 19, 2021
Savak’s latest batch of scabrous indie rock—mixed by Total Control’s Mikey Young—pits scraping guitars against high-tension rhythms. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 23, 2018
