Noah and the Loners seethe with a fury one might expect from a song called “Protest Anger.” It’s a punk song that combines a pointed energy and urgency that is part Killing Joke and part the raw power of an early era street punk band. But what the band does here with its surging rhythms and electrifying attitude is not just critique society with a sensitive and thoughtful if spirited set of words. Rather, Noah and the Loners dispense with the niceties and cut to the core with the kind of direct sentiments that feels exciting regardless of whether you’re a member of Gen Z or just someone who is done with the framing of times past that may have been adequate to that moment but do fuck all for a time when climate disaster isn’t in some distant future, it’s been on our doorstep and beyond for years while our leaders and political and economic systems are in deep denial. The line “This country’s in doomsday danger” sums that up immediately. And “Government cancer and look into my eyes and tell me the Tories play fair” could apply to the situation in America with the GOP. “Centrism” has been the handmaiden of fascism worldwide and the younger generation is keyed into that knowledge in a way older generations tend not to be. What could be clearer about that weak lack of resolve about the proper role of government and human organizing in general than “People die in the street while you screw up and repeat and repeat and repeat.” Who wouldn’t be furious and frustrated at such irrational political malfeasance. The song is a rallying cry that sounds so vital now and very much embodying a spirit running through the world that leaders and establishment types ignore at their own peril.
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