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TV FACE Scorches the Sociopathy of Oligarchs on Noisy Post-Punk Single “Boots Pocket Coffin”

Lancaster, UK’s TV FACE is back with another ferocious, noisy and scathing dig at the economic elite with “Boots Pocket Coffin.” The song as wonderfully pointed as it is has an undeniable dance beat punctuated by spirals of hysterical guitar sounds and angular rhythms. The song builds a heady momentum from the beginning and pulls you into its catharsis immediately as well. There is a playfully mocking tone to the lyrics that suits well its depiction of the dire fate to which the ultra-wealthy seeming casually willing to throw the bulk of humanity as disposable bits of paving on their highway to pointless economic excess and for what? Sane civilizations do not suffer billionaires and hundred millionaires to exist. But here we are and TV FACE spell out so well how everything is not enough to sociopaths who live only for accumulating wealth and doing nothing positive or even really visionary or interesting with their unjust theft of the public good. Look for the new TV FACE album Wolf Rents Bark due out September 2025. Fans of stuff like mclusky and Viagra Boys will definitely find a great deal of appreciations for the rhetoric and headlong pace of this band’s output generally. Watch the video for “Boots Pocket Coffin” (warning on strobe effects) and follow TV FACE at the links below.

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TV FACE Presents a Stark and Brutal Portrait of Disablism in the Video for Seething Post-punk Single “Black Bag”

Six months after the release of its debut full length Tide of Men, Lancaster, UK’s TV FACE released the video for its song “Black Bag,” directed and edited by guitarist and vocalist Steve McWade The black and white footage seemingly shot in the basement of an old asylum is as grim as the subject matter of the song. Very few bands would write a song about disablism and the neglect, disregard and institutional brutality visited upon those deemed disabled either in body or psychology (and of course the interlinked nexus of the two). The song has the band’s signature sharp edges and angular rhythms with spirited vocals and a knack for crafting a sound that in its surging and frantic paces embodies a righteous frustration and outrage that has not nearly enough outlets for catharsis. Except that TV FACE always seems to have its attention on often neglected aspects of society and humanizes the situations with a vivid and energetic presentation and creativity. Watch the video for “Black Bag” on YouTube and follow TV FACE at the links provided. Tide of Men is out now on limited edition 180g yellow vinyl, CD and of course digital download and streaming.

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TV FACE Punctures the Pomposity of Boastful Fools on “Yarns”

We all know at least one person who talks big and has a story about everything that’s grander than anything you can speak to with any integrity. The president of the United States of America is one of these people for whom everything is the non-plus ultra of whatever subject is at hand. But in the end these stories don’t stand up to scrutiny and when they unravel the whole edifice of making the teller out to be some kind of hero or person of great accomplishment crumbles. TV FACE’s song “Yarns” spins such a tale in words and the language of wiry, layered discordant riffs and amplified energy. In moments it’s reminiscent of one of Lee Ranaldo’s more punk songs for Sonic Youth with its wide-ranging and sprawling dynamic that somehow welds to that stretched out composition an enthusiastic intensity. With the line “Just like the yarns you’ve come undone, you look washed out” the band encapsulates the end result of making oneself and one’s life more interesting than is the truth. Why not tell stories of your life that you can live up to instead of getting lost in a web of what you think to be beautiful truths when someone somewhere is going to know you’re exaggerating if not outright lying? Listen to “Yarns” on Soundcloud, follow UK-based post-punk band TV FACE at the links below and give a listen to the group’s new EP Like Dominoes which released April 24, 2020 on Bandcamp.