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Harsh and grating, \u003cstrong\u003eFugazi\u003c\/strong\u003e surprisingly produces sheer noise at times, best witnessed in the lengthy closing of \"23 Beats Off\" and the unintentional Gremlins homage that opens \"Walken's Syndrome.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoe Lally's\u003c\/strong\u003e bass and \u003cstrong\u003eBrendan Canty's\u003c\/strong\u003e drums are relegated to acting as a guide; they're pushed -- but not squashed -- down in the mix, allowing for Ian MacKaye and \u003cstrong\u003eGuy Picciotto's\u003c\/strong\u003e guitars to take control, corrosively so. It's probably Fugazi's least digestible record from front to back, but each track has its own attractive qualities, even if not immediately perceptible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Facet Squared\" and \"Public Witness Program\" open the record furiously, but the majority of the following \"Return the Screw\" is hardly audible, aside from occasional vocal tantrums. A good amount of time is spent alternating between low-key guitar noodling and intrusive bursts of aggression. They're smart with their sequencing, placing the gentle instrumental \"Sweet and Low\" (the only track where Lally plays a prominent role) after the exhaustive cacophony of \"23 Beats Off,\" and generally piecing together a set of rather diverse tracks that flows well. Picciotto's anti-Hollywood rant on the properly titled \"Cassavetes\" is a classic Fugazi moment, as is his similarly name-dropping \"Walken's Syndrome.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuried at the end of the record are two excellent lurchers, MacKaye's \"Instrument\" and Picciotto's \"Last Chance for a Slow Dance.\" Not Fugazi's finest hour, but one of its most daring and rewarding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Andy Kellman,\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eAll Music Guide\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fugazi","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl LP","offer_id":39689835020439,"sku":"DIS70LP","price":56.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":47548923085044,"sku":"0","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Vinyl (Import)","offer_id":47933107994868,"sku":"0","price":44.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/products\/FugaziInontheKilltaker.jpg?v=1617333513"},{"product_id":"dick-move-chop-2020","title":"Dick Move - Chop (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEnergised by a strong community fighting for important social change and a need to turn late night political chat into action, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.flyingnun.co.nz\/collections\/dick-move-band-from-new-zealand\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDick Move\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e was formed in the depths of Karangahape Road’s \u003cstrong\u003eWhammy! Bar\u003c\/strong\u003e and has become an essential party punk voice for women, working people, and for all those that are fired up to make change in the world.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"cropable\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003eMade up of Aotearoa punk stalwart \u003cstrong\u003eJustin Rendell\u003c\/strong\u003e (PCP Eagles, Shitripper), prolific harmoniser \u003cstrong\u003eHariet\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eEllis\u003c\/strong\u003e (Na Noise, BOZO, Sulfate) and long-time moshers, first time shredders \u003cstrong\u003eLucy Suttor\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eLuke Boyes\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eLulu Macrae\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eDick Move\u003c\/strong\u003e spit out short sharp hot takes that call to the increasingly fucked up world around them. Notorious already for their pumping live shows, Dick Move’s catalogue of blink-and-you’ll-miss-it punk anthems are cutting, confronting, empowering and dripping with brash cheekiness and political angst.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir album ‘Chop!’ was a 5-way collaboration over New Zealand’s 2019\/2020 summer. ‘Chop!’ draws on shared experiences to pair weighty and spitting lyrics with bright and relentless hooks. The 13 tracks were lovingly produced, recorded and mixed by \u003cstrong\u003ePeter Ruddell\u003c\/strong\u003e (Wax Chattels, Sulfate) at his home on Karangahape Road in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith show upon show upon tour upon tour being derailed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby Covid-19, maintaining momentum as feminist-socialist-party punk agitators is challenging to say the least, but \u003cstrong\u003eDick Move\u003c\/strong\u003e will keep doing what they do best; shouting across oceans from the bottom of the world about things that matter, in a thick kiwi accent.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"credits-label\"\u003ereleased October 16, 2020\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVocals - Lucy Suttor\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBass - Lulu Macrae\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrums - Luke Boyes\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGuitar - Justin Lee\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGuitar - Hariet Ellis\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003col data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Dick Move","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl LP","offer_id":39996748169367,"sku":"1:12LP012","price":50.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/products\/DickMove-Chop.jpg?v=1721976001"},{"product_id":"fugazi-steady-diet-of-nothing-reissue","title":"Fugazi – Steady Diet Of Nothing (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"section-small section-precede product-details\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"container\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col col-md-12 col-lg-10 col-lg-offset-1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tab-content\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tab-items\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tab-item tab-1 active\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"container\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col col-md-7 col-lg-6 col-lg-offset-1 product-description\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom the opening swarms of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExit Only\u003c\/em\u003e, you can tell\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSteady Diet of Nothing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewill differ from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFugazi's\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eearlier records.\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRepeater's\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eexcellence can't be denied, but the band stood in danger of stagnating it's sound. To it's benefit,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFugazi\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emade some changes, employing more herk-a-jerk rhythms and dub influences, and changing up the lyrical focus. Actually, the lyrics get a bit vague - bordering on equivocality at times - which has it's advantages and disadvantages. With\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSteady Diet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFugazi\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eget more economical and less forceful. 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The album expresses an even greater sense of urgency about the fragile state of our planet, and a greater sense of fury towards the depraved hypercapitalist sadists ruling over us. Western governments are sitting snugly in the pockets of billionaire sociopaths who envision a future of endless war on Earth, and who fantasise about escaping the complete and total destruction of the planet via underground boltholes, Network States, or interplanetary exploitation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite years of repeated warnings of a fascist resurgence, its roots have quickly spread over the globe. The taproot of this is the US Empire, where malevolent venture capitalists like Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and techno-authoritarian dickheads like Curtis Yarvin, have formed ideological alliances with government leaders and billionaire CEOs to usher in a new era of uninhibited capitalist extraction. The so-called State of Israel, two-facedly funded by much of the Western world, has continued to rain down bombs on Palestinians in a ceaseless genocide. Social media grifters and manosphere jagoffs pump steaming turds of disinformation into a thoroughly enshittified internet ecosystem, while our user data is siphoned out to train AI systems for military tech.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNobody is coming to save us. But their money, their bunkers, and their colonial space fantasies won't save them either. We have a shared outlet for fury and grief in music, we have each other, we have solidarity, we have community. We can engage in direct action, we can participate in mutual aid efforts, we can boycott and sabotage. 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