Our favorite UK Marxist punks, Hard Left, are back with a new, four-song 7” EP entitled Economy, from which we’ve selected two tracks to premiere for you this day.
On the A-side is the super-tough title track, perhaps the first punk song in recent memory to quote radical German writer Georg Büchner. On the flip, the band collaborates with noted ranting poet Tim Wells; “Hoxton Market Forces,” taken from Wells’ latest book, Everything Crash, is a pin-sharp indictment of urban gentrification set to a roiling pop-art explosion of a tune. Wells seethes with indignation while the band smashes it up behind him; chaos beckons but never quite takes over. Hurrah!
Economy comes out April 22 on Future Perfect Records.
