Drunken Sailor HHV Records 46 Items

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Pack Rat

Glad To Be Forgotten

£ 17.37*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Public Eye

Music For Leisure

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Suddenly Everything Is Twice As Loud

Alien Nosejob

£ 18.20*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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You'd think Jake Robertson would already have his hands full playing in the likes of Ausmuteants, Leather Towel, School Damage, Drug Sweat et al. But no, evidently there's always time for one more thoroughly wracked project, and Alien Nose Job's focus is as kaleidoscopically scattershot as you'd expect from a man with such a short attention span. Just to confirm: yes, that's a good thing. From the off, we glide through the Coneheads-style Devocore of Television Sets before romping through the jangling lo-fi pop of Weight of the World, which skips and mopes while making like The Clean setting light to their parents' carpet with a magnifying glass. There's also charmingly scruffy soul-pop, chugging sci-fi slop-punk, straight-up college rock balladry and much, much more. But these aren't sketches or tossed-off genre exercises. They're bona fide works of consummate skill that resonate sincerely and effortlessly. Essentially, each song sounds like a challenge to the one that follows, a cry of 'step the fuck up'; Suddenly Everything is Twice as Loud is a treasure trove of mini-masterpieces. Rough as fuck mini-masterpieces, sure, recorded with a cheap drum machine and guitars that sound like rusty drills cutting through power cables, but mini-masterpieces nonetheless. When venerable doyens of the pop establishment make albums of such eclectic scope and genuine songwriting talent, they get called geniuses. When punk as fuck wiseguys like Robertson pull it off, words like 'maverick' get tossed around. Rest assured, his Alien Nose Job project covers both angles. This second album is an instant classic that deserves to be heard far beyond the underground - but if it isn't, who cares? He's probably playing in another seven bands already by the time you read this. I've not heard them yet either, but I can tell you they're all fucking amazing. Just buy this record and join the cult. Will Fitzpatrick.

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The Unknowns

East Coast Low

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Members of The Chats, second LP in anticipation of their debut Euro Tour, FFO Cosmic Psychos, The Saints, Stiff Richards. Australia never misses. European release of The Unknowns second LP, released on Bargain Bin Records in Australia. "There have already been some monster LPs released in 2023, and the sophomore album from The Unknowns just might be the best of the lot. The Brisbane-based then-trio released one of the greatest punk albums of the roaring twenties (so far) with Nothing Will Ever Stop back in late 2020. Now a foursome following the addition of The Chats' Eamon Sandwich on guitar, The Unknowns have returned with an even better follow-up. East Coast Low manages to take most of the musical genres I hold dear and mash them together in the most delightful way. Basically the sound is classic punk rock with a ton of energy and catchy tunes (what else would you expect from Australia?). Yet at the same time, this album aligns beautifully with modern-day garage punk, power pop, and straight-up rock n' roll. East Coast Low packs ten tracks of punchy sing-along punk rock into 23 and a half minutes of pure fun. Songs like "Dianne," "Rid of You," "Thinking About You," and "I Don't Know" prove once again that there's a certain kind of itch that only old school punk rock n' roll can scratch. These guys are doing nothing new. But man, they do it so freaking well! If we're talking about the cream of the contemporary Aussie punk crop, The Unknowns have earned a place in the conversation." Josh/ Faster and Loude.

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The Hell

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Today My Friend You Drunk The Venom

The Drin

£ 24.82*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Way out there. From up in the attic, in the village of Cincinnati - the third album from the Drin has arrived to commence 2023. 'Today My Friend You Drunk the Venom' is the Drin's finest hour as a creative entity. McCartney's incredible command of rhythm lies at the forefront of the mix, complimented by a group that is able to seamlessly transport between post-punk, acid guitar jangle, and krautish experimentalism. There's even a stellar dub track on here.

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Can Kicker

£ 24.82*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Cardiff's supremely noisy quintet Can Kicker are here. If you like your hardcore to flex some serious muscle (well_ riff-wise) while skirting around the edges of goth and post-punk, with the needle in the red all the while, their self-titled debut just could be the record for you. This album will melt your synapses so you've no idea what your brain's trying to tell you, beyond the certainty that Can Kicker are the ones for you.

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Strange Attractor

Good Boy Bad Boy

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Gaffer

Dead End Beat

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Can Kicker

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Stools / Toeheads

Watch It Die

£ 22.34*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Some cities just know how to produce bands by the bucketload. Take Detroit, for instance: we don't need to rattle through a full list or anything, but safe to say that if your town has given the world the likes of Motown, Derrick May and J Dilla - before we even start to think about The Stooges et al - then you could be forgiven for thinking there must be something in the water round those parts. So whaddya say? Should we get to know two more fine exponents of melodic wonder from the Motor City? Only seems fair. This split LP between citymates The Stools and Toeheads certainly isn't a letdown as far as the illustrious company of their forebears goes. In fact, it's a fast-paced thrill ride that oscillates between hip-shaking rock'n'roll swing and bone-shaking hardcore energy. You might already be familiar with The Stools thanks to their ludicrously addictive Feelin' Fine 7", which dropped via Drunken Sailor (hey, those guys sound familiar_) early in 2021. If you though that short EP was a good time, wait 'til you see what they've got in store here: right out of the gate, opener Dead Man's Ford smashes the devil-toed boogie of the MC5 at their slinkiest into the teeth-clenched intensity of Negative Approach (and that's a pretty decent John Brannon-style roar they deliver too). They maintain this quality and velocity across their side, which is brilliant. There's no let-up from Toeheads either - their side of this split sounds like someone revved up The Gun Club and aimed fireworks inside their exhaust. This is the sound you always knew you were working towards when you got into this rock'n'roll business; guitars blazing, lungs bursting, a wall of sound collapsing while we all dance in the debris. Does it sound like anything new? Fuck no, but that's not the point. Much like The Stools, there's nothing you can say about Toeheads that can't be summarised with the phrase 'total exhilaration'. So there you have it. Another compelling case for Detroit as home to the finest sounds around, put forth by two youn...

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Generacion Suicida

Regeneracion

£ 19.14* £ 22.53 -15%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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'What if Blitz hailed from Los Angeles and sang in Spanish' isn't a question you hear all that often. Fortunately, we don't need to ask - the answer is provided by Generacion Suicida's latest album, which rages and rattles in all the right places, drenched in the memorable brilliance that powered the Killed By Death compilations (ask yer dad - and if he doesn't know or care, burn his terrible records and make some space to track down the KBD LPs). The band's slogan is 'musica del barrio, para el barrio' - music from the neighbourhood, for the neighbourhood - but it sounds like they could use these hooks to take on the world. That's a pretty accurate sentiment as well, because this album was written during the Covid-19 lockdown of 2020, while the world bubbled over with carefully managed misinformation, police violence and the sickening overspill of white supremacy's foul brew. If Regeneracion sounds potent, it's because there was a lot to be angry about, and the result is arguably their best album yet. Those chorused-out guitar lines carry shades of deathrock, hints of Manchester circa 1980, elements of something you might call goth if it was several degrees less furious. But there's no doomed romance to this music; it's an all-out attack. Street punk with the smarts turned up and an ear turned to the lessons learned from post-punk (but crucially, not the 'post-punk revival' that is essentially shirtless beardy lads chanting non-sequiturs over landfill indie). Chiefly, it'll make you wanna get out of your chair, unite your local community and march on down towards your government's centre of operations with a simple-to-use molotov cocktail kit. Its rage is infectious. It's inspired by bleak moments in our recent shared history, but it revels in humans' capacity to find strength in each other. And the tunes? Oh damn, they're good.' Will Fitzpatrick.

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Daddy's Boy

Great News

£ 19.14* £ 22.53 -15%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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'Questionably a hardcore band' is how Daddy's Boy describe themselves, and one listen to their discombobulatingly brilliant debut LP should answer all your questions as to what that could possibly mean. Recorded with Steve Albini at Electrical Audio, GREAT NEWS! is the sound of punk folding in on itself and racing through sounds you might have previously identified with dumb genre tags like post-punk and possibly even no-wave - except this isn't either of those things. It rages smartly and discordantly across a wide terrain of undulating rhythms and coruscating rifferema, eventually settling on something that's_ well, kinda uniquely Daddy's Boy. So what makes this sound? Specifically, four humans who are too clever to simply follow the 'three chords, now form a band' template without trying to fuck up the corners (and work their way into the centre). Members of Split Feet, Retreaters and Fake Limbs pile up together to create this delicious cacophony, and you'll be glad they did. When vocalist Jes Skolnik intones, "I'm so fucking important," you know it's drenched in venomous irony, but it's difficult not to agree: GREAT NEWS! feels like a record that'll last way beyond those 'best of the year' lists and continue to pulverise your eardrums for years to come. It's the sort of record that felt like the future when Touch & Go Records pushed hardcore past its knuckleheaded limitations 40 years ago, and still feels like no one ever really caught up. It's the riffs from Cows' Cunning Stunts, cribbing notes from Crass' Feeding Of The 5,000, with vocal delivery pitched to 'gloriously matter-of-fact'. Oh, and no spoilers, but in Skolnik, Daddy's Boy might just have one of the smartest lyricists in (questionable) hardcore right now. Mark my words, this is some record. Will Fitzpatrick

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Chained Bliss

£ 19.14* £ 22.53 -15%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Philly's own Chained Bliss set tongues a-waggin' back in 2019 with their Stained Red cassette EP, gathering more than a few comparisons to the Wipers' early racket in the process. Well, now they're back with a debut album that seems to have skipped right ahead from Is This Real? to Over The Edge: this self-titled LP has all the gut-punching ramalama, knockabout guts'n'glory of that first tape, with added layers. Melodic guitar lines come perilously close to jangling over crunching power chords, while furiously yelped choruses give way to sumptuously put-together breakdown sections that catch you off guard and kick you in the shins before legging it down the street. Chained Bliss clearly love scrappy, skatey garage rock (echoes of Agent Orange's Living In Darkness abound) as much as they love pushing that raucous clatter into something spacious - the meditative sections that flow effortlessly into absolute ripper Pillars Of Abuse are as unexpected as the thoughtful but head-spinningly energetic sections that bring Creative Seizure so thrillingly to life. Other times they're just as happy to keep you careening towards the pit with two-minute bangers, but that's the beauty of this record: it's never smarter than when it's playing dumb, and the rest of the time it's just pretty damn smart. Here's a challenge: can you listen to Ominous Life's gnarly pop without raising those fists of yours skywards and landing a firm thump on the air? Or Drifter's swaggering stomp? Or, or, or_ ahhh hell, you get what I'm saying here. Every single cut slays, every single hook snags itself on your brain. You'll come back for more, and more, and more. Are Chained Bliss your new favourite band? Well, gee, we've never met and I don't know what you like and it's not for me to say_ but on the other hand, yes. Yes, they are. They're heading straight for your heart and they ain't budging. Will Fitzpatrick

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The Stools/ Toeheads

Watch It Die

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Generacion Suicida

Regeneracion

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Daddy`S Boy

Great News!

£ 17.02* £ 20.02 -15%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Drunken Sailor)

ISS

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Engines Sing For The Pale Moon

The Drin

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Drunken Sailor)

Erik Nervous

Bugs

£ 21.51*

Jackson Reid Briggs & The Heaters

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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After Numerous Releases On Drunken Sailor, Total Punk, Neck Chop, Then Teaming Up With The Beta Blockers For His Last Full Release, Erk Is Back, This Time On His Own. Originally Released On Cassette In 2020, Finally Out Now On Vinyl. He Might Be On His Own But Damn, You Wouldn't Know It, Right From The Total Punk Of The Opening Track 'Our Hungry Fruit' There Is No Let Up. Erik Still Has The Classic Midwest Punk Devo Influence, But With A "New-New Wave" Sound That's Been Coming Out Of California And Saint Louis. Distorted, Frantic, Utterly Aware Of Punk/Hardcore/Post-Punk/Whatever's Past And Its Limitations, But Determined To Find The Lesser-Explored Gaps That Lie Between And Make Them His Own.Erik Still Sprinkles His Tunes With Liberal Doses Of Pop Fairy Dust. Buckle Up, Bugs Is The Sound Of The Summer You Didn't Think You Would Get. Erik Nervous Forever.

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Waiting In A Corner

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Drunken Sailor)

7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Drunken Sailor)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Imagine A World Where The Saints Held Onto The Raw-Throated, Full-Throttle Rock'n'roll Of Their Mighty First Three Albums. Where Radio Birdman Are Rightly Held Up As One Of The All-Time Great Bands. Where The Wipers Never Left The Driving Punk Rock Of 'Is This Real?' Behind For The Post-Kraut-Psych-Whatever Of The (Admittedly Still Totally Ragin') 'Youth Of America', And Simply Kickstarted A Revolution. That's The Sort Of Reality Where Jackson Reid Briggs & The Heaters Would Be Best Appreciated. Where Driving Rhythms, Crunching Power Chords And The Sound Of A Man Howling 'You're Gonna Get Eaten Alive' Are The Adrenaline-Pumping Soundtrack To The Everyday. Where An Album Like 'Waiting In A Corner' Is Heralded As A Goddamn Classic Upon Arrival, And Worshipped As A Vital Instrument In Setting Souls On Fire And Lifting Spirits Everywhere. Where_ Aww, You Get The Idea. Because Melbourne-Based Briggs And His Thrillingly Rambunctious Collective Have Made One Of Those Albums - Their Fifth - Where All You Can Do Is Play It Over And Over, Thrilling To The Ordered Chaos Of Songs Like 'Too Many Years' While Swooning To The Anthemic Likes Of 'If You Only Knew'. There Are Some Types Of Music That Australia Just Does Better. Garage? Punk? Yeah, Something Like That. 'Waiting In A Corner' Is The Latest Example, And Holy Fuck, It's An Instant Wonder. If Only Rock'n'roll Could Always Be This Good.

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The Stools

Feelin' Fine

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Drunken Sailor)

Spokenest

Gone, Gone, Gone

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2013 | EU | Original (Drunken Sailor)

Rad Company / Tight Bros

Split

£ 7.44*

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2012 | EU | Original (Drunken Sailor)

Vacation

Candy Waves

£ 7.80* £ 9.17 -15%

Release: 2012 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2012 | EU | Original (Drunken Sailor)

Shit Creek

Pissing Blood

Release: 2012 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2010 | EU | Original (Drunken Sailor)

Young Leaves

Life Underneath

Release: 2010 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Drunken Sailor)

The Cowboy

Cowboy, The

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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12" | 2014 | EU | Original (Drunken Sailor)

No Sir I Won`T

Shit

£ 8.76* £ 11.68 -25%

Release: 2014 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Chain Whip

14 Lashes

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Drunken Sailor)

ISS

Iss

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Drunken Sailor)

Dark Thoughts

At Work

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Wonk Unit/ Raging Nathans

Split

7" | 2016 | EU | Original (Drunken Sailor)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Dark Thoughts

Must Be Nice

£ 17.37*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"You only get worse," goes the first line on Dark Thoughts' third album, but while they might be correct about your personal decline, this West Philly trio are quite evidently better than ever. Hot on the heels of 2018's At Work LP - 18 months later, to be precise - this new collection sees the band at their wilfully-dumb-but-smarter-than-u best, knocking out Ramonescore nuggets of the purest gold as if their lives depended on it. Whether imploring you to 'listen to the radio' or simply 'please don't leave me alone', Jim Shomo's voice remains the perfect balance of snot-drenched sneer and wounded croon, while the band lock into their fast'n'furious groove to frame his lovelorn melodies with the correct amount of muscle, and maybe they'll even pour a few beers directly into their amps while they're at it. Sure, they retain the sound that powered those first two albums, but they know what they're doing - if it ain't broke, don't fix it; if you're broke, write a 90-second punk banger about it with an irresistible melody and play it as loud as possible. As if to prove that fact, synth-splashed closer Must Be Nice shows they might even have written their best cut yet. Getting back to that first song, Hesitate, Shomo goes on to say: "I've seen the future / It looks so much brighter than it used to." On the basis of Be Nice, it's difficult to argue with that assessment: this is the perfect synthesis of pop and punk and a welcome reminder that your 70s heroes just wanted to recreate the unforgettable 45s they heard on the radio as kids. The 12 songs here may be destined for your turntable rather than the wireless, but you'll treasure 'em every bit as much. Another classic from a band that just doesn't know how to stop writing 'em - Dark Thoughts forever. Will Fitzpatrick.

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Snarling Dogs

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Shove

Agency

£ 21.51*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Puffer

Demo & Ep 12"

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Pack Rat

Life's A Trap

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2024 | EU | Original (Drunken Sailor)

Judges

Guns

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Insane Urge

Two Tapes

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Originally released on two tapes on Stucco, now available on vinyl. Ferocious, manic Punk via Austin, Texas.Overpublicised rock hack/full-time gobshite Charles Shaar Murray said of The Clash that they were `the sort of garage band who should be speedily returned to the garage, preferably with the motor running'. Now that's all well and good, but what if I told you there was a band that sounded like they'd taken this to heart and replaced the petrol fumes with all the gnarliest uppers and the cheapest booze? Meet Texas' Insane Urge, a band for whom no fidelity is too low, no riff is too snotty, and there's no hook that wouldn't sound better being crushed into the dirt by a combination of velocity and curled-lip, devilish delirium.This is their `Two Tapes LP', compiling their (you guessed it) two tapes for Down South Tapes - and what a compilation it is! Rattling through 15 songs in 18 minutes, it condenses the primal chords of The Sonics, the dumb thrills of the Oblivians and the smash'n'grab speed of hardcore punk to create something that sticks to your synapses like paste. Almost feels like someone should call Bomp!, Sympathy For The Record Industry and Crypt to check this hasn't leaked out of their archives - that classic raw vibe is unmistakeably here and it's an instant winner.From the opening instrumental that shares its name with the band to the minute-long thrill ride of `Job', `Two Tapes LP' is rock'n'roll at its stoopid best (and trust me, you've gotta be smart to play this stoopid). It's a record that'll cement its place on your speakers, its brevity only serving to make you demand another immediate fix - which you'll do again and again and again. If the band moniker reflects anything, it's the fact that you don't make music like this because you wanna. You do it cos you can't see any other choice. Listen and love..Will Fitzpatrick

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Cutters

Psychic Injury

Lost Inside My Mind In Another State Of Mind / The Singles Collection

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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It's been said before - in my house, at least - but all the best punk music right now hails from the land Down Under. Stiff Richards, Split System, C.O.F.F.I.N., Polute_ that's before we even get into that `Smoko' band and a whole heap of other mullet-wearing reprobates. To this stack of names, we must add another: Cutters.It's a raucous squall they make, that's for sure. Much like setting off rockets at a petrol station, they're beautifully, terrifyingly explosive - `Psychic Injury' is their second album, following 2021's gleefully cacophonic `Modern Problems'. Much like their aforementioned fellow Aussies, you can trace some of their stomp back to the UK's 70s pub rock scene, a good chunk of their chutzpah to Chris Bailey and Kim Salmon, and even more to the fact that hardcore feels once more like a re-energised scene filled with purpose and drive (...and other words that rock hacks use to make it clear that certain noises are Really Fucking Important Right Now). They're among the finest exponents of this stuff and it's a joy to hear it.With titles like `Landlord Nation' and `An Ode To Shoplifting', it doesn't take a genius to identify their targets; with lyrics like `I'm the first of many suckers' you can tell they're not above self-deprecation, even as they rage gloriously about a system that's rigged against us. The album drips - like an icicle in the Sahara - with righteous rage, and even when that anger feels knowingly futile ("I hate the public / Get away from me"), it's delivered with such wide-eyed venom that it still feels potent as fuck. Whether operating a top velocity or through brutal rifferama, `Psychic Injury' delivers in spades. Apply it to your ears forthwith.Will Fitzpatrick

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Cruelster

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Split System

Vol. II

£ 25.65*

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Drunken Sailor)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Maybe your demands of punk are a little too high. Maybe they're a little too exacting - you know what you want, but you don't know how to get it. Maybe you've got an itch that's needed scratching since you first heard '(I'm) Stranded' (sounds like a doctor needs to look at that, mind). Maybe all or none of these things are true and you're just in search of three or four chords and some righteous snot. Reader, you have come to the right place. Split System came sauntering out of Melbourne back in 2022 with a self-titled 7" and a debut LP (the sensibly-titled 'Vol. I'), and as a listener of exquisite taste, one or both of those items will have carved out their own spaces within easy access of your record player. With members of acer-than-ace garage punkas Stiff Richards and Speed Week among their number, not to mention the redoubtable Jackson Reid Briggs, they deal in a gloriously back-to-basics take on punk that's part Undertones, part Royal Headache and part Chris Bailey - all hooks and glory, all the time. They're so much more than the sum of their parts and they make this shit sound effortless. Well, here's an update for you: they're back! Second album (the equally-sensibly-titled 'Vol. II') is now upon us, and a thoroughly tremendous follow-up it is too. As soon as opener 'The Wheel' slams into your speakers, it's clear that they've lost none of the pep or power that made their debut such an essential listen; if anything they're even more raucous and revved-up than before. Yep, that's jargon for 'they rule hard', and let me add here that you could listen to this album 100 times in a row or simply try inserting dynamite sticks with lit fuses into your ear canal; either way, your poor little mind is gonna blow. It's an album made entirely of bangers (still on that explosion metaphor, are we?) - the concise questioning of 'End of the Night' is as pure a punk rock nugget as you could ever wish to uncover, and 'The Drain' is just energy distilled to a perfect series of hooks - with a passion for rock'n'...

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Punter

£ 24.82*

Dissipation Of Clouds, The Barrier

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Punter hail from Melbourne and their brand of noise is thrillingly intense. They describe themselves as 'a hardcore band described as a rock band', and it's difficult not to fall in love with a statement like that, especially when it so accurately describes their slalom between all-out axe heroics and to-the-point, in-yer-face-and-then-some punk ferocity. From the intro track's snarkily deployed job centre answerphone message ("Just say, 'in Australia, my voice identifies me'"), we're catapulted straight into the wholly-inaccurately-titled A Minute's Silence, which rages like Motörhead gargling bleach in the middle of a circle pit. This is likely the moment where you'll know that your new favourite band is here, and they're absolutely tearing it up. Thrill! To the anthemic hooks and glorious mob shoutalong of Retirement Simulator. Spill! To the guitars piling up like wrecks at a demolition derby on Curfew Eternal. Be fulfilled! By the joy of a very brilliant band being very brilliant at you. This record pulls from a similar formula to their citymates Stiff Richards, but with the ingredients thoroughly fucked about and the proportions changed to the point that any resemblance is minimal at best. By the time the sunny 'ooohs' of A Year's Silence get you thinking of proto-punk UK pub rock, you'll be ready for more power chords propelled by even more diamond-hard energy - Punter offer all this by the bucketload. Get involved, friends. Get the fuck involved right now.

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A Culture Of Killing

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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