According to our friends over at London Celtic Punks, the London-Irish Celtic-punk lifers The Popes just shoved their 2012 album New Church onto the streaming racks, and opener Storming Heaven is the first single out the gate. Mad Dog McGuinness’s sandpaper bark and Thin Lizzy-via-Dubliners crunch landed fresh on Spotify and YouTube as of September via STT Records. The fan-driven reissue aims to drag New Church out of the vault for a generation that never caught the band between MacGowan’s Snake days and the long silence after Mad Dog’s 2013 accident. Full album next month if the interest sticks; vinyl and CD if enough of ye dig it. Get ready. We’re storming heaven.
