England’s classic street punk torchbearers The Filaments had a couple of solid releases under their belts before calling it a day in 2005 when their singer emigrated to the U.S.
But with atrocities and injustice ripe for the railing against steadily building up, the band reformed a few years later. Look To The Skies is their first official coming out record since the reformation, and damn, is it a great one. A clarion call for the disenfranchised to wake up and speak out, this record could not have come at a better time.
Across 11 tracks, the band deftly and feverishly blend classic British punk rock, ska, and flashes of psychobilly for their most energetic and consistently satisfying album since their original founding. From the opening chords of the brilliant anti-MAGA-hat-wearer anthem “Fuck the Alt-Right,” through to the final ringing of the crash cymbals on “Killing Machine,” there is hardly a moment to breath in between, Just righteous indignation delivered in impossible-to-resist punk rock anthems.
Glad to have them back!
