| Engineered by Piers Mortimer (Deep Purple) and produced by long-time friend and soundman Simon Efemey (Paradise Lost, Amorphis), the record was challengingly recorded during the height of the pandemic in 2020. “It was an amazing fun and creative experience, recording while there were COVID restrictions,” Embury offers. “We seem to only now dimly recall the whole process but this record lives it and breathes it…When the pandemic hit, we decided we needed to make an album that didn’t fit. We all loved so much other kind of punk and rock, so why not explore that which is, in essence, closer to our hearts? To do the same album over and over again would be boring.” “When Decibel released the Deadguy live record [Buyer’s Remorse] this year, my gears turned,” says Sharp. “Having supported the band in print and via flexi disc, we were stoked to see [Decibel editor] Albert [Mudrian]’s interest in this VC record. It’s a different kind record and deserves a different kind of approach. The music industry is in constant evolution and this approach to getting our music out seems like a good fit amongst old friends on our terms.” The Good Ship Lollipop track-listing 1. The Good Ship Lollipop 2. Timeline 3. Slack Jaw 4. Pig 5. Clinical 6. Fractured 7. Voices 8. So Sick 9. Flowers Bloom 10. The Humble Crow 11. Can’t Lose 12. Everything is Endlessness 13. Life’s Winter The Good Ship Lollipop is also available in the following formats from Graphite Records in the U.K.: – Standard Black Vinyl – Exclusive CD edition – Digital edition (worldwide) Venomous Concept line-up: Shane Embury – bass Kevin Sharp – vocals John Cooke – guitars Carl Stokes – drums Decibel online: https://www.decibelmagazine.com/ https://www.instagram.com/decibelmagazine https://www.facebook.com/decibelmagazine/ https://twitter.com/dbmagazine https://www.youtube.com/user/decibelmagazine | 
