‘Destruction the solution, war the solution, dereliction the solution, the solution is no solution’ (We Are Making A New World)

Gimic return with a fizzing follow-up to their excellent debut EP, Defer To Hate.  The Bristol band continue to hone their very distinctive clean guitar hardcore that frenetically refracts a myriad of seemingly disparate influences through a Dischord leaning prism without it ever feeling like that it might be an odd thing to do.  Snarled, rasping vocals and a funkily limber rhythm section provide the band’s cornerstone, while the guitar weaves its own intriguingly serpentine path across three tracks that brim with unexpected invention.

The writhing Irrational Demographic kicks proceedings off with its dissection of the polarised echo chambers of much contemporary debate, before Plastic Prison explores how the same dynamic sees us construct our own confinement, building as it does to a fiercely dissonant crescendo.  The flip side sees the more expansive, slow-burn title track take centre stage and it doesn’t disappoint as it dismantles the warped political consensus that has led us to our current malaise.