Ruts DC: Counterculture (Sosumi Recordings)
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Rel Date: Friday eleventh November 2022
Ruts DC return with an album that because the title proclaims, positions them inside the Counterculture, which now greater than ever appears to be in dire want of kick beginning.
Opener Faces In The Sky opens with an digital virtually industrial pulse, a handled voice calls out “This a tune for the dispossessed. The undiagnosed and the good unblessed. Brothers and sisters have we come to this? Have we come to this?”, the observe, set at measured tempo broods, there’s darkness right here… Ruffy’s beats propel you ahead, while Leigh Heggarty’s guitar ramps up the strain, Segs anguished voice railing in opposition to A.I as he spits out the “Most of you persons are fucking clueless” retort.
Caught In The Kill Zone provides no let up, immediately recognisable as Ruts DC, that tight rhythm is the bands DNA, Segs voice has strengthened with maturity and easy compliments the vitality of the tune “For too rattling lengthy we been caught within the Kill Zone” he chants on this political stomper, equally with X-Ray Pleasure – an absolute spotlight of the whole assortment. Like the rest of album – its much less musically confrontational than The Crack, however then that was written a lifetime in the past; don’t be fooled into believing that simply because the musical rage is lowered then the band has much less to say.
The Query Is sees Ruts DC hitting the groove as they lyrically problem societies established order; the tune reveals a widening of the band’s horizons, they haven’t deserted their core punk/reggae roots, however they’re definitely reaching out – Born Harmless completes the neat trick of basing itself upon a wonderful reggae bass line that could possibly be from any earlier interval within the band’s historical past, but as a result of songs lowered tempo kinds a vital stepping stone for the rest of the album; once more the lyric which right here assumes an virtually Biblical supply questions mainstream spiritual beliefs, countered with the will to deal with all people as you your self wish to be handled, to not point out some great guitar thrives courtesy of Leigh Heggarty.
Title observe Counterculture opens Aspect Two, a boisterous work out that went down nicely when carried out at this yr’s Rise up competition; an insistent guitar riff to match the aggressive but managed rhythm while Segs asks “What occurred to the voice of freedom? That saved us respiratory. Ought to we cease believing?”
Too A lot, like the rest of the album is about at a slower tempo, there’s nothing advanced in regards to the tune writing, although from the naked minimal of components Ruts DC are capable of craft refined but wealthy, rewarding music. Sleep sonically nods in the direction of 60’s psychedelia, these influences are ever extra evident throughout Cyclone with its light harmonies, prolonged vocal refrains, and maybe even a keyboard buried inside the combine.
Ruts DC proceed to forge their very own path, Counterculture is the pure development from Music Should Destroy – the energy within the lyrics, the subtlety of the preparations; Ruts DC stay a pressure to be reckoned with.
Ruts DC ‘Faces In The Sky / Counterculture’ Tour Dates:
18/11- Exeter Phoenix
19/11- Southampton Brook
20/11- Cardiff Globe
21/11- Oxford O2 Academy
22/11- Stoke Sugarmill
23/11- Glasgow St Lukes
26/11- Liverpool Arts Membership
28/11- Sheffield O2 Academy
29/11- Bristol Thekla
30/11- Nottingham Rescue Rooms
02/12- Birmingham Institute
03/12- London Islington O2 Academy
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