Lice: Satirical music needs to experiment with itself in order to offer anything truly constructive

"There’s this papering over the real ways in that things like bias and the social crises of our time actually exist in the real world, in this incredibly complex moral universe that’s driven by implicit and unacknowledged forms of hate and misunderstanding. To my mind, satirical and politicised music should be geared towards understanding these things in more complex and nuanced moral terms, economic terms and societal terms” -  Alastair Shuttleworth, the frontman of the UK post-punk band LICE says in the Quietus interview. Band's guitarist Silas Dilkes also believes that all the sounds the band makes should be made by one of the members - “I think there is virtue in going through the process of understanding how to harness sounds we were interested in and recreate them through a simple tool like a guitar. It gives you a better understanding I think of why you might want to make that sound in the first place". LICE's debut album 'WASTELAND: What Ails Our People Is Clear' is out now.