The mighty Subhumans’ dystopian debut.
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Subhumans- the day the country died The Subhumans are an anarcho-punk band formed in the Trowbridge & Melksham area of Wiltshire, UK in 1980. Dick Lucas joined later in the year, having formerly been in local band The Mental. The Day the Country Died is the debut studio album by English anarcho-punk band Subhumans. It was recorded in five days in June 1982 and was released in January 1983 through Spiderleg Records. The album was later re-released via Bluurg, the band's own record label. The album is influenced by the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Subhumans - The Day The Country Died The (U.K.) Subhumans were another one of my absolute favorite bands way back when. They originally formed in 1980 and released a flurry of classic U.K. Hardcore between '81-'84.
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Although I will say that I’m very grateful for the large collection of punk records my dad bestowed on me, I couldn’t help but notice a The-Day-The-Country-Died-sized hole in the pile. I scoured the attic, then asked my dad whether he had it about forty times to which he replied each time “it’s up there somewhere” until on the forty-first occasion, he remarked instead “oh I must have sold it”. At that time, any spare money I had was being firmly spent on beer and entry fees, so the thought of scraping together twenty quid for a record I could only ever play on the primeval record player I found in a charity shop was daunting, impossible, but something that needed to be done. Relying on YouTube videos for about eight months and no longer being unemployed, the day finally arrived that I could listen to this album from start to finish on vinyl and write what I thought about it. So here it is, the (hundred-and) first time I’ve heard The Day The Country Died in all its perfection.
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As I’ve mentioned before, the way Subhumans create such a journey in their music is triumphant: and The Day The Country Died is a great pilgrimage of punk. All Gone Dead is born in a storm of white noise and nuclear whines, feeling chillingly apocalyptic – but its pace removes that sense of defeat, setting you on edge waiting for the next track. The bass gorges in Minority and Killing and as the riffs ramble and push, you get a real taste of Subhumans’ animation and energy in their playing. Their pumping pace and chanting snares in the iconic Mickey Mouse Is Dead thrust the adrenaline levels up high, and the thickening of the subdued, smouldering electric guitar of Nothing I Can Do into its sudden torrential surge is so exciting. The metal clinks, the snares shout, and it feels as busy and fresh as Dying World’s jungle of sound, which weaves into fantastic chaos. Then Subvert City seals off Side A as it started, with its snares heaping and ghostly electric wailing above, like a dystopian cult film.
The kind of vivid fullness heard in tracks like Big Brother and New Age is one of the things that likens Subhumans to the Dead Kennedys (and I’ve heard Jello Biafra reference them a couple times), along with their seemingly effortless ability to thrust into the quick, blood-surging power and pace, as in I Don’t Wanna Die. The drums rampage rapid and immediate, the hard decline in electric chords clenches and bass swells, Dick yelling brazen and true. Subhumans’ lyrics are strong – the classic No is one of those tracks you know every word to, and shouting them out together with a sweaty gig-load of people is something I’ve got to do again soon. The same can be said about the jaunty, trotting nursery rhyme that is Till The Pigs Come Round, though the albums last two tracks No More Gigs and Black And White show Subhumans’ darker, sombre side. Bass dotted measured and steady, riffs in minor keys and lyrics moody (‘she said she loved me then she died’) in No More Gigs and the sinisterly conclusive feel to Black And White is absorbing, stopping you in your tracks and making you do what all punk should: think about the words. Subhumans really puts you into the grim world of their songs; and then their lyrics make it obvious that that world is real, and that it’s got to change.
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