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In dark,troubling times, maybe the most instantly gratifying solace one can seek is a wittily barbed diagnosis of the situation. “The fox has hisden. The bee has his hive. The stoat … his stoat-hole,” Stewart Lee once remarked: “But only man chooses to make his nest in aninvestment opportunity.” Caustic retorts like this are what fuel the debut EP by dance-punk outfit Regressive Left, ‘On The Wrong Sideof History’. For pervading through their dynamic and glitching music is a duty to report unflinchingly society’s ills. They are a staunchlypolitical group, but far from your average po-faced by-numbers punk band. There is a gristly social commentary at the band’s core, butthe songs themselves are characterised by a need to have fun, to find some kind of solace and escapism from the inevitable rapture.Recorded over an intense 5-day spell with in-demand producer Ross Orton (Arctic Monkeys, MIA, Amyl and The Sniffers) in Sheffield,Regressive Left’s debut EP ‘On The Wrong Side of History’ was immortalised over a handful of 11am-1am sessions in his studio. Inmany ways it is a time capsule of the maelstrom of ideas that got the group to this point in the first place – the infuriating, bleak politicalclimate, and the urge to find escapism from it – consigned to vinyl in one herculean effort. Taking influence from the booming postpunk, funk and disco scenes of New York, Regressive Left’s sound is stark and danceable. Angular guitar scratches meet dirty synthbasslines, whilst Simon Tyrie’s Edwyn Collins croon is chased around by effervescent drums. The banal horror of life in Tory Britainexpressed with sharp and dry wit, and then set to truly barnstorming and infectious dance music Due out July 15th on Bad VibrationsRecords, the new EP arrives following a trio of acclaimed singles (‘Eternal Returns’, ‘Take the Hit’, ‘Cream Militia’), tours with the likesof Bodega and Folly Group, festival appearances at End of the Road, Latitude, Great Escape and Wide Awake, and a sold out headlineat The Windmill.
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