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SSR 082LP
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Red vinyl repress. Sarcasm's final offering is the much-needed shot in the arm you don't even have to queue for. Sonically their six-track EP is a potent mix of the ignorant anarcho clatter and arch post(-graduate) punk you already love them for, but moreso. Picture UK Decay squatting the Barbican. Still eschewing distortion for a truly inspired use of phase, the cavernous production (another Falco joint) will leave you staring at a city trader until he switches carriages. Whether it's echo-laden pronouncements on our worst instincts for techno addiction ("Digital Colony") or odes to modernist artists Paul Nash ("Marsh Personage") each track is as desperate as it is restrained by the same conditions. Heavily reminiscent of Fallout and the more cerebral end of UK82, mercilessly taut and lyrically about as obtuse as you'd hope from punk songs about rare varieties of lichen. Some guy once said something about the need for pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will in abject times, and this band amply proved the evergreen joy to be had in being a smart arse. Bury Creeping Life under the rubble of the A3030 at Stonehenge when they start tunneling, because this is one for the well-groomed future druids. Justified and ancient, Creeping Life absolutely goes. Blue vinyl; edition of 350.
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SSR 047EP
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Sarcasm from London release their debut EP on Static Shock Records after a great five-track demo Total Institution, released on Far So Far in 2016. Sarcasm deal in angular post punk led by skeletal guitars and a locked in rhythm section. The vocals are nonchalant and a bleak and broody vibe is sprinkled on each of the four tracks. The sound sits somewhere between a more sparse Crisis or The Fall, in the glory years on Step Forward Records. This is the sound of the past, the sound of now, and the sound of dissatisfaction.
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