\u201cI got a right to say FUCK YOU!!!\u201d is how the new album from veteran guitarist Marc Ribot\u2019s trio Ceramic Dog starts off, with Ribot howling in anger at corruption, tyranny, life in general, and nothing in particular. Ribot certainly isn\u2019t the only one piling-on, but if you\u2019ve got a serious case of outrage fatigue, Ceramic Dog\u2019s explosive cocktail of balls-to-the-wall abandon, chameleonic disregard for style constraints, political commentary, and absurdist humor is just the shot in the ass you might need. In fact, Ceramic Dog\u2019s new album — titled YRU Still Here?\u2014 directed in equal parts at themselves, the commander in chief, and the listening public — arrives just in time to remind us that now is a moment when anger is not only necessary, and unavoidable, but also good for house plants . Thanks in no small part to the fire, brimstone, and dextrous facility summoned by kindred spirits Shahzad Ismaily (Secret Chiefs 3, Will Oldham, Ben Frost) on bass and drummer Ches Smith (Xiu Xiu, Secret Chiefs 3, Trevor Dunn\u2019s Trio Convulsant), YRU Still Here? comes to the table armed with more than just sloganeering rhetoric. By way of stylistic explanation, Ribot comments: \u201cYes, we too are subject to the post-modern condition, but we see it as a kind of psoriasis.\u201d Alongside his monumental career forging his peerless guitar style with the likes of Tom Waits, John Zorn, the Lounge Lizards, etc, Ribot has also worked for decades as a tenant union and artist rights activist, where he mastered the agit-prop skills used to such dazzling effect on hits such as \u201cFuck La Migra\u201d and \u201cMuslim\/Jewish Resistance\u201d. As much as it is a rallying cry, though, YRU Still Here? also further consecrates Ribot\u2019s bond with Ismaily and Smith, referring to them as his \u201cmusical conscience\u201d and to the band as a \u201cfamily…although not always in a good way\u201d. \u201cAfter all the playing I\u2019ve done,\u201d Ribot explains, \u201cthere\u2019s just something about this group that still manages to shock me.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Marc Ribot \u2013 guitars, vocals, E-flat horn, vocoder, farfisa;
\nShahzad Ismaily \u2013 bass, moog, synthesizers, vocals;
\nChes Smith \u2013 drums, electronics;
\nMarc Ribot \u2013 guitars, vocals, E-flat horn, vocoder, farfisa;
\nShahzad Ismaily \u2013 bass, moog, synthesizers, vocals;
\nChes Smith \u2013 drums, electronics;
\nMarc Ribot \u2013 guitars, vocals, E-flat horn, vocoder, farfisa;
\nShahzad Ismaily \u2013 bass, moog, synthesizers, vocals;
\nChes Smith \u2013 drums, electronics;
\nMarc Ribot \u2013 guitars, vocals, E-flat horn, vocoder, farfisa;
\nShahzad Ismaily \u2013 bass, moog, synthesizers, vocals;
\nChes Smith \u2013 drums, electronics;
\nMarc Ribot \u2013 guitars, vocals, E-flat horn, vocoder, farfisa;
\nShahzad Ismaily \u2013 bass, moog, synthesizers, vocals;
\nChes Smith \u2013 drums, electronics;
\nMarc Ribot \u2013 guitars, vocals, E-flat horn, vocoder, farfisa;
\nShahzad Ismaily \u2013 bass, moog, synthesizers, vocals;
\nChes Smith \u2013 drums, electronics;
\nMarc Ribot \u2013 guitars, vocals, E-flat horn, vocoder, farfisa;
\nShahzad Ismaily \u2013 bass, moog, synthesizers, vocals;
\nChes Smith \u2013 drums, electronics;
\nMarc Ribot \u2013 guitars, vocals, E-flat horn, vocoder, farfisa;
\nShahzad Ismaily \u2013 bass, moog, synthesizers, vocals;
\nChes Smith \u2013 drums, electronics;
\nMarc Ribot \u2013 guitars, vocals, E-flat horn, vocoder, farfisa;
\nShahzad Ismaily \u2013 bass, moog, synthesizers, vocals;
\nChes Smith \u2013 drums, electronics;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":367,"template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-321","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-world","product_tag-marc-ribots-ceramic-dog","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enjarecords.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enjarecords.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enjarecords.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enjarecords.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enjarecords.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}