Category: punk
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wet kiss – she’s so cool
Punk used to be something you called a deadbeat. Then it was something to do with music. Then it was something else. Now it’s an open field for transgressions of any kind: apolitical, even amoral. Maybe it was always that and the world has changed. In any case, ‘She’s So Cool’ will be one of […]
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otoboke beaver – super champon
Otoboke Beaver’s third LP whizzes past at breakneck speed, leaving the listener to recalibrate inside a dust cloud it drew from the ground. More than their two previous records, ‘Super Champon’ toys with a chaotic humour that dips its hand equally into both nihilism and hedonism. The musical choices are charged with a refreshing sense […]
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fontaines D.C. – skinty fia
‘Skinty fia’ is an Irish term meaning ‘the damnation of the deer’. Fittingly, this is an album in diaspora, looking back at Ireland with sturdy solemnity. Now living in London, the Dublin four-piece extol the strength of their homeland through a greatly expanded sound, while Chatten’s accented vocals assertively seek to anchor the band to […]
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wet leg – wet leg
It would have been unreasonable for Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers to pray for the success they eventually got. Whoever our God/s are, they/she/he/it is/are just not that kind. But the Isle of Wight duo didn’t need to wish upon a star or whatever; they had a hook and a sequence of words that were […]
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warmduscher – at the hotspot
Remember Gal Gadot and co.’s ‘Imagine’ cover? This is an angrier performance that is almost as fruitless. Where Gal was spitting venom at the coronavirus, Warmduscher suggest that a seedy nightlife is the antidote to daily life. It’s a fun idea. ‘At the Hotspot’ seeks to evoke the seduction of dive bars but instead embodies […]
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