Death Ridge Boys

***In recent years, the ever-mercurial tastes of the subcultural throngs have shifted, and Oi!-influenced punk music is now enjoying a renewed interest and cache in the current scene, even among the most dyed in the wool, capital “H” Hardcore circles. As such, a new vanguard of standard bearers have emerged, and Portland’s DEATH RIDGE BOYS are waving the banner high. Formed in 2017 by TALK IS POISON's WILLIAM HARRIS, along with by members of PRESSING ON, FOR THE WORSE, and RAW NERVES, to name a few, Death Ridge Boys play a fiercely political brand of streetwise punk/Oi! that pays homage to the genre’s roots through a decidedly modern cultural lens. On their third full length (and TKO Records debut), Too Much Bullshit, they’ve crafted a 12-track bruiser of an album: brimming with anthemic, melodic, and unabashedly Leftist Oi! that competes with the best current bands. Musically rooted in the timeless sounds of originators like the Business, 4-Skins and Angelic Upstarts, Too Much Bullshit is heavy on the football chant and '60s-style guitar leads that give Oi! music the urgency and immediacy that still resonates over 30 years later. Topped off by Harris’ gruffly melodic vocals and incisive lyrics, these songs buck against cops, modern technology, endless proxy wars, and anything or anyone else with their boot on the throats of the American working class. Lifelong Oi! fans will find everything here that first made them fall in love with the style, and new initiates will immediately get what all the fuss is about. Edition of 400 copies.