Sydney-based rock band C.O.F.F.I.N. (aka Children of Finland Fighting in Norway) dropped its latest album Australia Stops on September 15, 2023 via Damaged Record Co and its singles have revealed the growth of the group’s ferocious punk sound. “Factory Man” is a burst of proto-punk and boogie rock, think Radio Birdman, The Saints and a touch of Motorhead. The song begins as like the kind of hard working and loving blue collar song to a man’s lover and how he has everything you need and if not he’ll get it and be a non-stop kind of guy. But halfway through the song it slows some and the lyrics turn to the reality of how living that way and being ground down by the work and perhaps die on the job as yet another disposable member of the proletariat in the cogs of industry. In showing that spectrum of the actual lived experience of a lot of people the group lends some dignity to the lives of people society and certainly the economy depends upon but readily anonymizes as a statistic whether things go right or wrong. C.O.F.F.I.N. captures both the vitality of industrial workers and the tragedy of an early death in “Factory Man” which is something one doesn’t hear much in rock and roll. Watch the live music video for “Factory Man” on YouTube and follow C.O.F.F.I.N. at the links below.
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