‘Perfectly curated illusion of freedom, obey the machine, worship the system, an answer to enforce every belief, abstraction to mask all of our grief’ (Silent Morality)

Having honed their bruising sound on two EPs, 2018’s Use Abuse Destroy and 2020’s Delirious Void, Perth’s No Future take their full-length bow with venomous aplomb on Mirror.  The thunderous d-beat fuelled, cymbal awash drums and bone shudderingly resonant bass lines inject a swaggering malevolence to proceedings, underpinning the waves of cacophonous, noise-infused riffage.  This is a groove fired recipe that comes together with particular brutality on Silent Morality, P.B.S., and Vampiric Ego Fucker.

But it is, perhaps, the vocals that demand centre stage.  Whereas we might expect a guttural roar, we are treated to powerfully rasping, reverb accented, rather than saturated, vocals that drip with undisguised contempt for those in power and the entrenched privileges they protect.  Silent Morality examines our own complicity in the capitalist system, Pig Fiend those who pay lip service to notions of equality with no thought to the damage wreaked by their knowing exploitation (‘Corrupted, crooked smile, pathetic smirk of power’), and Progress? the warped rationalities that infect us all (‘Beliefs that endlessly echo, a mental vice that can’t let go’).  It may well be a desolate message, but it is one delivered with compelling conviction.