In the spring of 2009, Gallows took a look at the state of the nation, and delivered the scathing, furiously angry, despairing . Fifteen years on, Bad Breeding's analysis of where we stand ahead of next month's general election - featuring parties led by a National Service-advocate , a Knight of the Realm (and former human right lawyer) whose call for a ceasefire in Gaza came only , and a public school-educated ex-City trader who cites the late Enoch Powell as a "political hero" and fawns over Donald Trump - is even more damning. "How have we arrived at such a juncture where workers teeter towards an inequality gap reminiscent of Victorian Britain while the gilded class prosper and portion out blame, pushing the lie that meritocracy is king, that you get what you deserve.
" This question is posed in an essay titled , one of three thought-provoking texts included with the Stevenage quartet's follow-up to 2022's excellent album. The fundamental answer, the band suggest, as per the title of their fifth record, is that the ruling classes have nothing but contempt for those 'beneath' them. "Only when we realise and utilise the utter contempt held for us can we reach a level of class consciousness that will provide an adequate challenge to capital," states frontman Christopher Dodd, an analysis rooted in the same sort of anger and frustration which led r to write his scathing lyrics for , and to conceive the caustic .
As you might expect, is not a pretty or tastefully polished recor.