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We’ll all remember where we were when the news started to come through: Trump was winning the election.

The air was thick with hyperbolic predictions and apocalyptic economic scenarios. On the internet, embarrassed political commentators tried to slash through the impossible hubris of imperial promise, while grinning ideologues declared the triumph of normal political discourse.

But there is respite in earshot: the new album from Kit Convict and Thee Terrible Two. Simple, pithy, on the money, like a cheap political slogan that actually means something. Witness the prophetic allegorical tone of ‘Napalm On The Street’, the enlightenment-drinking ‘Cobra’s Blood’, the demographic cleansing strategy of ‘Sterilised’, the targeted law enforcement strategies in ‘Divvy Van’, the covert state surveillance in ‘Pigs In Disguise’, the incisive political analysis in ‘Neanderthal’, the fatality of hope in ‘Dancing In My Crypt’ and the prospect for civil unrest in ‘Trouble Is Brewing’.

Suddenly it all makes sense. No one knows exactly what the next four years have in store, but no one can ever take away primitive three-chord garage rock. Long live Kit Convict and Thee Terrible Two.

Cobra’s BloodbyKit Convict And Thee Terrible Twois out now via Convicted and available through bandcamp.

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