Following 2022’s breakthrough EP, Heat!, and fabulous singles such as Binge and Fit For Work, the Yorkshire-formed, London-based post-punk band’s debut LP is packed with strong melodies, a broader range of sounds with an extended sound, and charismatic frontman Zac Lawrence’s punchy, sharp delivery has dark, foreboding overtones about a dysfunctional Britain. The album as well as title track, captures a sense of spiralling cultural madness and desperation in a country driven to the edge by over a decade of calamitous government and its after effects, in reference to that freak strength in extreme, emergency situations (“Conjuring up a divine degree of hard to fathom energy/ This rope stretches to immeasurable lengths / Hysterical strength”). Opener Credit To Reason quickly accelerates into a racy pace with fabulous thrumming bass and psychedelic guitars, More Heat! introduces saxophone, which serves strongly as a second voice across the album. Among the highlights though are Mother, perhaps the musically most dynamic and complete, mixing smooth, lilting saxophone melodies and guitar riffs dropping like shards of glass, the excellent punchy Mere Mortal, Deus Ex Machine, Relieved, and the swaggering, dark mischief of closer Auntie Christ. A great live band too, now fully tightened in fury and seething, broody sharpness. Out on So Recordings.
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