***The news cycle as it exists in 2019—rapid, permanently mutating, consistently grotesque—equally blesses and curses BAD BREEDING. A group with a keen eye for social injustice and establishment venality, expressed in hollered tones over a full-throttle, enervating soundclash of anarcho punk, hardcore and noiserock, their third album Exiled was fueled by the last 12 months in (primarily) British politics: a nation circling the drain while forever eyeing the plughole. Partly, anyway. Topics on this 12-song, 33-minute album also include some hardy perennials of left-wing hardcore punk: war, imperialism, the police, the press. Topics which, at a time where the political landscape could change tectonically between this being written and you reading it, maintain a grim relevance. It's far more than generic protest prose though. One must hear for oneself to know for sure. Edtion of 250 copies on black vinyl housed in a classic Crass-style 12-panel foldout poster sleeve with essay inserts and download cards included. Art by NICKY RAT.
LP $17.75
07/05/2019
***Bad Breeding, the Stevenage-based hardcore unit, release their fifth album ‘Contempt’ with Iron Lung Records in the US and One Little Independent Records worldwide. It follows 2022s ‘Human Capital’ which mercilessly attacked Conservative meritocracy and the exploitative forces of late capitalism. ‘Contempt’ ups the ante yet again and explores the continued effects that austerity has had on the working public and specifically capital’s destruction of the planet and its inhabitants. It’s released with multiple essays in an accompanying zine, one that follows environmental and humanitarian journalist Aidan Frere-Smith and another that tells the story of a homelessness crisis in a city full of unused housing. Utilizing a mix of propulsive rhythm and furious, explosive guitars to maximum effect, Bad Breeding have weaponised their anger in the fight for survival; “Because these days are ours to take / Seize them with union, love and rage”. 250 on white with opaque blue splatter and 250 on translucent green 150 gr vinyl housed in a 24pt jacket with multiple inserts and essays included.
LP $25.45
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