The single “LARA SCOFFED” by Welsh electronic-post-punks teethin is refreshing in its subversion of any expectations one might have using genre tags to give potential listeners a touchstone. The scathing lyrics are simultaneously vulnerable and delivered with a righteous outrage at how the way the way one is “supposed” to operate as an artist in order to get attention for your music or even to get it heard and how that’s intertwined with soft power engines of oppression and capitalist psychological warfare against actual culture is engulfing and cathartic. The songwriting fuses rock sounds with electronic production methods including dub so that the song pulls you along its its heady melange of big beat rhythms, whatever Underworld was doing in the first half of the 90s and post-hardcore thorniness and a dusky and caustic sound that is pure punk spirit without fitting into some neat box as too much punk of the past 40 years has seemed to want to fit. It’s ferocious and exhilarating and calls to task some of the least inspiring aspects of music and popular culture. Listen to “LARA SCOFFED” on Spotify.
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