(7-track demo)
Put simply this is old-skool punk rock at its very best, and how just how it should be. I came to hear of this Gloucester-based 3-piece because their �Corporate War� jolt features alongside one of my songs on a vinyl-only compilation album - �Words Will Never Be Actions� - of 20 underground bands and artists, and this 7-track demo they say they recorded all in one knackering afternoon is more of the same politically-charged mayhem with a penchant for bit-part melody and even snatches of poetic narrative that opens �H-Bomb,� yet the Electro-punk poetry of �Urban Dream� �(Urban degradation is the curse of all nations�) is the most interesting. These Kosmik lads prove that good old punk�s still alive� and I�m loving it. �Eastern Front� has a cracking beat and an angularly ard-assed chug, set alight by its sneering chant chorus, and re-iterates this band is anti-evil yet addresses us as comrades as in �Big Brother� which conversely suggests conformity. Whatever, their energy is relentless and they view the bigger punk picture with a great deal of originality and hint that they�re willing to experiment with pop undertones if as �Urban Dream� benchmarks a stand-out punk song. And if they�re half as good live as they are on record, then they�re fucking awesome� (Steve Rudd)
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