Bad Breeding

***The news cycle as it exists in 2019—rapid, permanently mutating, consistently grotesque—equally blesses and curses BAD BREEDING. A group with a keen eye for social injustice and establishment venality, expressed in hollered tones over a full-throttle, enervating soundclash of anarcho punk, hardcore and noiserock, their third album Exiled was fueled by the last 12 months in (primarily) British politics: a nation circling the drain while forever eyeing the plughole. Partly, anyway. Topics on this 12-song, 33-minute album also include some hardy perennials of left-wing hardcore punk: war, imperialism, the police, the press. Topics which, at a time where the political landscape could change tectonically between this being written and you reading it, maintain a grim relevance. It's far more than generic protest prose though. One must hear for oneself to know for sure. Edtion of 250 copies on black vinyl housed in a classic Crass-style 12-panel foldout poster sleeve with essay inserts and download cards included. Art by NICKY RAT.