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album, and second with German punk empire PLY London Punksters Deadline
sure picked an apt title as this is something that should be more than
looked at for sure, in a kind of up close and impertinently personal way
maybe only shown in certain Soho establishments. Strip-searching all kind
of vinyl refugees in charity stores they arrive at their own coruscating
and compelling mix of shuddering speedcore and hammering hardcore with
juddering guitars and dum-dum drumming clambering from the wreckage
embellishing all this energy with pure pop melodies of sweet tea and
tangerines. In the wrong hands such confectionary could be cloying (the
jolly ‘1975’ for instance) but Deadline’s muscle keeps their material
well-honed. Intravenous choruses marshalled with a drill sergeants
drubbing demands for dubbin so they shine such that you can see your life
reflected in them, let alone your face. ‘I Won’t Give’ and ‘Do You Think?’
are taut as steel wiring holding tension in suspension as juggernauts
jack-knife in whirlwinds levelled with vocalist Liz’s presence. Along the
lines of the title she takes a wide-eyed look around too at politics both
public and personal, hitting out with deserved sarcasm at the goons who
objectify women on the rattling rockabilly of ‘Hey You!’, undoubtedly
pointing a finger (I’ll leave which one-s to your imagination) at a
‘statesman’ or two on breach-breaking opener ‘Blood On Your Hands’, the
over-taxed, over-burdened (yet distinctly underwhelmed) populace on ‘Give
It Back’ and scallies terrorising the streets on ‘Round The Corner’.
If you
want to know where UK punk’s at away from the ‘Hello’ for hoodies
hood-winking humdrum horrors of Kerrang then take a good look at this with
20/20 hearing.
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