Kicked In The Teeth – Watling Street Chambers

When I read that this band called Kicked In The Teeth hail from “The Salt Mines of Northwich”, it evoked a very strange yet vivid memory of a documentary film called The Salt Mines I once watched, that followed the lives of three Trans women living amongst the homeless of, If I recall correctly, Manhattan.  Anyway this has absolutely nothing to do with the band, other than they play unrelenting rage filled punk rock with a heart, and the film itself was full of rage and plenty of heart warming moments, you could say they both are/were groundbreaking, but I thought I’d share this with you all anyway.

As we’ve established this is a band, and album that takes no prisoners, their sense of danger stripped away by the need to drag you along with them on a journey into the musical wastelands. If you can conjure up in your mind, a sound that inhales everything that was Motörhead and Minor Threat then exhales it as something that is as visceral as it gets. The moment ‘Savour The Victory’ kicks in with its, life is to short for not getting the fuck on with it attitude, the way this album is heading is pretty clear.  No holds barred tuneful punk rock at its loudest best.

You know the times when you hear an album, and you just can’t decide whether or not you wanna share it with everyone, or just keep it to yourself and know that everyone else is just missing out, well I kinda wanted to do the latter, in the sense that, do others deserve this? Will they get it? Will they realise jut how good it is the same way I do  But as you may have noticed, my better judgement won out, of course you should all go buy/listen to this.  

So in good old ‘Me’ style, I’m gonna not give the whole game away, and hope that your curiosity takes you by the ears into songs like ‘Lightening Tree’, with it’s Rancid at their hardest melodic best sensibility about it. The carefully structured and no fucks given ‘Wooden Gun’ or the self descriptive ‘Some Things Never Change’ (and why should they!) This is an album that doesn’t in any way kick down doors, break out of any boxes, or re-write the history books, instead it just drops like a hand grenade and walks away……. 

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Out 9th May via Rare Vitamin Records