RESTARTS

Slum World: Dare To Stand Up And Break Free (Active Distribution) 2002
If we had come across this in 1990 we might have thought it outdated, but somehow the Restarts have dragged shouty punk literally screaming into the 21 st century and make it sound fresh. As befitting a band that is on the Active Distribution roster, they are very angry and have no problem telling people about it. Spawned in Hackney their DIY anarcho punk attitude has ‘free squat party’ written all over it, and having caught them at a squat party in Deptford, we can assure you they know how to rattle the windows old school punk style. There is no let up, this is intense in ya face hi-octane punk from start to finish, they put so much energy into it is hard to imagine them having the time to think about chord changes and lyrics, yet somehow they manage to strangle riffs out of their axes that make this more than just a noise and the shouted lyrics demonstrate a street sensibility that come from being young angry and on the dole. The Oi Polloi of the south.

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