I wish to say thanks to BAD BREEDING for developing their new album Contempt out now by means of One Little Indie and Iron Lung Data. There may be such a lot I may say about this superb number of songs that I do know will stand the take a look at of time! We’ve been blessed with a observe by means of observe breakdown of the album by means of the individuals of the band themselves. If the people from BAD BREEDING are studying this, simply know that y’all are certainly one of my favourite all-time bands going again over 40 years of being part of the International Punk neighborhood!
Y’all must know that this band has surpassed their earlier data and created a razor sharp number of Anarcho Hardcore Punk anthems that they hang like a blade to the throats of the corrupt. On a private tip, I were given to let y’all know that BAD BREEDING’s track is just right for my psychological well being, as a result of they make me understand I’m no longer by myself in my outlook at the global. Musically, this band is status on industry after which some!
CVLT Country
Dangerous Breeding Contempt
Temple of Victory
This used to be the very first thing we wrote for the document and all of it got here from Charlie’s repetitive bass line. Lyrically it examines the falsehoods of reactionary nationalism in the United Kingdom and the way narratives had been used to advertise disunity and fractures at a time of utter destitution in England. Exploiting the fabled lustre of British exceptionalism, the status quo’s tentacles of manipulation have led some to rejoice on the foot of a Temple of Victory, chasing hole routes of xenophobia and mistrust to supply solutions as to their daily precarity. The speculation initially got here from studying up at the arson and next suicide of a person attacking a migrant centre in Dover in 2022. When penning this tune I discovered myself revisiting the First Global Battle poets like Owen, Rosenberg, and Sassoon I’d studied in secondary faculty. There’s a deeply affecting futility there, and likewise in art work like C.R.W. Nevinson’s Paths of Glory, that during many ways seems like a reflect for the duplicitous exceptionalism harnessed by means of the ruling categories in Britain these days.
Survival
Survival is among the lyrical cornerstones of the document, which explores capital’s destruction of the planet and posits the concept that simplest an arranged reaction from staff can save you the ecological cave in of the planet. Capital’s disaster of overproduction, extraction of surplus and relentless war-gaming has left the earth both scorched or drowned by means of its personal oceans. Hundreds of thousands are displaced with each passing yr by means of battle, famine and ecological destruction, fleeing farther and farther to hospitable lands which might be violently safe by means of capital and the established few who function and prosper below its framework. Because the planet turns into hotter and no more liveable, capital’s makes an attempt to continue to exist and hoard will simplest transform extra violent and inhumane. It’s simplest with a complete opposition led by means of staff and underpinned by means of an unwavering worth for lifestyles that the present financial gadget we’re compelled to are living below will also be dismantled and rebuilt anew with magnificence antagonisms destroyed totally.
Devotion
Devotion seems on the blind dedication to the present established order that has established itself in Britain, the place a price of residing disaster may well be answerable for the deaths of hundreds of other folks every yr. The place flags are waved and scapegoats flogged within the press whilst companies lay declare to emerging dividends and benefit margins as other folks undergo below the semblance of selection; compelled to both starve or freeze. How have we arrived at this sort of juncture the place staff teeter against an equality hole harking back to Victorian Britain whilst the gilded magnificence prosper and portion out blame, feeding the lie that meritocracy is king, that you simply get what you deserve?
Liberty
Liberty briefly is an exploration of the way neoliberalism has served as a facilitator of imperial growth, cloaked below the pretence of bringing liberation and freedom to maldeveloped portions of the sector. Maximum of it used to be taken from a collection of lyrics I wrote years again as a observe as much as a tune off our Exiled document known as Chemical Sundown Ashen Morning. It explores how the ones in positions of energy have steadily transformed and reframed the tactics by which they justify the destruction of a global formed by means of their very own greed and profiteering. It’s an anti-war tune in essence and appears on the persisted brutality and destruction of the planet and its other folks within the title of financial and egomaniacal conquest. The invasion of Iraq in 2003 used to be most probably the primary level of political awakening for me as a young person and my passion within the West’s place within the Heart East changed into extra thought to be once I came upon writers like Michael Parenti and Vijay Prashad. I’ve been writing about that throughout lots of the data relationship again to 2016, beginning with Venerable Hand at the first document we did and going via to Hypothesis on Human Capital in 2022. Liberty is an extension of the ones criticisms and concepts throughout the lens of the destruction and humanitarian crises which were created within the previous years.
Self-discipline
In many ways Self-discipline is a significant other piece to Survival in how it explores how capital’s obsession with productiveness and intake has poisoned what’s left of the planet and likewise wrought untold bodily and psychological pressure on maximum of humanity. The lyrics map out this obsession and its have an effect on, whilst the second one part of the tune targets for resistance by means of ditching our determination to the constructions of capital and how it robs us of our time, labour and spoils of labor. It’s a tune that asks us to reevaluate how we understand {our relationships} with the earth and every different with the intention to loose ourselves from the very psychological and bodily prisons we’ve constructed below the stress of our present financial gadget.
Retribution
On maximum of our data there’s generally one sonic outlier. There’s numerous layering and punishing textures in this document, however Retribution used to be written as a little of an antidote to that. Lyrically, it toys with being fairly extra at the nostril and it’s a little of a nod to my formative years going to soccer with my previous guy’s Subs and Angelic Upstarts CDs within the automotive. Capitalist realism has codified and established a view in cities like Stevenage that our imaginations are not able to conjure a long run or choice past our present financial gadget. This tune requires us to reimagine our long run within the colors of a united running magnificence, to visualise the autumn of capital via neighborhood and unity. I guess it’s a tune at once about Stevenage too. There’s a duality right here, perennial battle and toil, but in addition an rising counter to all of it. Regardless of the ongoing assaults on our magnificence, cities like Stevenage plough on via and other folks to find tactics to patch themselves in combination time and time once more.
Gilded Cage / Sanctuary
With all its frictionless innovation and meritocratic uplifting, those are the sunlit uplands of recent capital that we discover ourselves wandering; a spot the place we’re poorer, wearier and extra by myself. Our persisted participation and the bludgeoning of neighborhood has crystallized a means of atomization that has atrophied our muscle groups of unity. This tune explores the lasting have an effect on of austerity within the U.Ok. and the years of ideological punishment meted out to running communities around the nation. The back-end of this tune options probably the most box recordings we’d collated all through the yr; other construction websites we have been running on and walks via the city centres on lunch breaks.
Vacant Paradise and Idolatry
Just like the tune earlier than it, Vacant Paradise builds on how atomization and the lasting legacy of neoliberalism has eaten away at communities, resulting in a chase for private success and self-actualization as a tonic to the barbarity of our global. A spot the place we cover within the uniformity of intake and acceptance. Convenience and heat is located in self-aggrandizing spectacle and no matter preeminent meritocratic endeavour is being peddled by means of the ones in positions of energy. This kind of sentiment bleeds into Idolatry, which once more asks the query as to why we now have transform so wedded to custom and the perpetuation of the established order in the United Kingdom all the way through a time of desperation and poverty.
Contempt
Capital and its bourgeois foot infantrymen hang not anything however contempt for running other folks and it’s in that contempt we will to find unity with one any other. No matter tale will get offered and packaged to running other folks, contempt guides each transfer of the capitalist magnificence. We see it each day within the unspeakable destruction and really gutting of the planet we survive. Most effective once we realise and utilise the utter contempt held for us are we able to achieve a degree of sophistication awareness that may supply an ok problem to capital.
All pictures by means of Cole
Dangerous Breeding “Contempt”
Picture by means of Fumito Yamazak
All pictures by means of Tim Birckbeck
