The Punk Site 2022 Top 20: Deux Furieuses – Songs From Planet Earth

At number 9 in the The Punk Site‘s top 20 of 2022 lie Deux Furieuses with their seismic third full length, Songs From Planet Earth, that is full of hope and fire that burns all the brighter in these darkest of times. It finds the duo of Ros Cairney and Vas Antoniadou rising up with some of their most incendiary work to date. Songs From Planet Earth stands against the tides of political turmoil, societal inequalities and climate emergency with a barrage of ragged inflected sounds. Amongst its ranks are the insurrectionary singles including Our Day Will Come, All We Need Is Sanctuary, Know The Score and the Boris Johnson toppling Bring Down The Government, all of which contribute to this essential album.

“These ten songs provide a chastening scrapbook of images of a broken land, but Songs From Planet Earth is also an album of sublime musical beauty and restrained furious energy. Heavy themes are lightly touched. The guitars and drums meld into a perfect space in which to express strong ideas. And while those ideas can be bold and strident, this album never feels like it’s ever doing anything but coaxing you along the correct road. Never preaching or hectoring, this is protest music in its most sublime expression, drawing on the deeply personal. But the personal is political, never more so than this. Anger is an energy.” (Peter Hough November 2022)

Songs From Planet Earth is available via Xtra Mile Recordings