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Austerity Dogs

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It is a high octane and unrelenting blitzkrieg, railing against all things banal and vacuous in today’s world.

Allo Darlin's eponymous debut album runs the spectrum from joyous, breezy, punky, jump-around pop with fabulous harmonies to sparse ukulele and steel guitar heartbreakers. The subjects of the lyrics usually focus around modern working life, unemployment, the criticism of celebrities and just working class banter. This will make said orifices bleed and hurt, like wiping them with folded grease proof paper and not being able to flush. Their debut 'The Killing Jar', which was released in 2012, was hailed by many as 'one of the best debut album's you'll hear all year' - it even made it onto Kerrang's top 50 albums of the year.Rave reviews of the album have appeared in magazines as diverse as The Wire and Uncut, along with interviews being published both on paper and on the internet, both here and abroad. With more international dates on the horizon including excursions to Poland and Sweden the interest in the Mods continues to spread. A turbulent brew with just as much 60s garage rock bite, head-spinning psychedelia and '1991-The-Year-That-Punk-Broke' grit to offer as Vinum Sabbathi riffage. Enter Mr Jim Sclavunos, the multi talented Grinderman and Bad Seed, not to mention the superbaaad connoisseur of the mixing console, fresh from producing the storming second Jim Jones Revue album. The society I live is mine" – this record says – "open to my voice and action, or I do not live there at all.

They also look to more current acts such as the Melvins, Sleep and Electric Wizard for inspiration, though singer, Harriet Bevan, still maintains a vocal style that evokes the haunting psychedelia of Grace Slick and psych-Satanist, Jinx Dawson from Coven: the woman responsible for the "sign of the horns" in rock'n'roll. As with the cold leftovers of last night's kebab hastily consumed on the way to work in the hope of staving off a hangover, it may not be pretty but it's undeniably nourishing.Austerity Dogs' is an unhinged, greasy blast of realism gobbing at a dying world staffed by utter tools.

Born out of part frustration and part accident, it quickly found its feet as an aggressive verbal onslaught on all that is contrived and connected to the day-to-day hammer of low paid employment and domestic situations arising from that trap.

Vote up content that is on-topic, within the rules/guidelines, and will likely stay relevant long-term. Condemned To Hope' is where Black Moth truly render themselves a glimmering presence in the firmament of 21st century rock. It somehow adds to the rawness of Sleaford Mods, but might piss audiophiles, Outer sleeve and laminated inner sleeve feel great, though. The perfect antidote to waking up with sludge tongued Stella ache and Russell Bland bleating revolution from every orifice.

It's only one of more than 50 great albums released this year, but it's arguably the most genuinely "punk", "urban" and "street" UK recording out of the whole bunch. Austerity Dogs’ is a dark, rough and ferocious album with a very comical side, looking at the state of Britain from the working class perspective at almost disbelief. Closer listening (to Jason Williamson’s lyrics), reveals wit and humour in abundance mixed with clever word play - a harsh realistic ‘tails’ to Shaun Ryder’s hedonistic ‘heads’. There's no special claims made for the city; no grandly romantic nonsense about its worth vis-a-vis other UK cities.This is probably punk's last gasp before the UK music scene and its chancy small town think-they-ares finally disappear up their collective bumhole. This sounds like the nightmare of the real, boring, relentless revolution that Thatcher instigated and Cameron sweats awake to. A sparse bass line is joined by a cheap-sounding drum machine, introducing the brutalist instrumentation that the record never departs from.

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