Gen & The Degenerates Release Debut Album “Anti-Fun Propaganda”

Alt punk collective Gen & The Degenerates have released their striking debut album, Anti-Fun Propaganda, via Marshall Records. Ever since Genevieve Glynn-Reeves was a child, she had an overwhelming awareness of how difficult it is to be a human. There’s infinite possibility, after all, in this life for disaster, tragedy and misfortune. Switch on the news, and it’s all there in front of you; war, crime, climate change, economic upheaval, more than enough to make you think that to be alive is to struggle constantly. What do you do when it feels like the world is crumbling around you? For Gen and the Degenerates, the answer is to have fun. 

Through this lens, the band’s enthralling debut album Anti-Fun Propaganda was born. A writhing mass of biting, off-kilter guitars, fuzzed-out driving basslines and blown-out drums. The album carries all the grit and cross-pollination of hip shaking desert rock with New York punk at a violent disco while retaining an undeniably British disposition. Recorded and produced by the infamous Ross Orton, the album is a coming-of-age story seeing the band as both a tightly knit unit and as individuals, find out who they are, and what they stand for. Late nights and early mornings, sexuality, gender politics and mortality, all while surviving your twenties in a volatile and confusing world fuelled by turmoil.

Sonically Anti-Fun Propaganda draws from New York punk and post-punk sounds, think Patti Smith, LCD Soundsystem and Sonic Youth. The record has its eyes open and its tongue sticking out, bursting with witty takes on the messiness of twenty-something life in a system stacked against you. There are songs about the absurdity of online discourse, pretentious trend-chasing, the desire for a simple, stable domestic life and refusing to subscribe to a social and political agenda that tries to restrict fun. With a debut like theirs, full of personality, witty observations, and frenetic riffs, it’s clear that now is Gen & The Degenerates time.

You can catch Gen & The Degenerates on tour with legendary Celtic punks Flogging Molly on their North American tour.