Cult Figures’ fourth album, ‘Reports of People’, is a collection of eleven tracks that span a variety of post-punk genres, but the one thing that is front and centre is the album’s authenticity and what a wonderful-sounding record it is.  I wasn’t sure what to expect at all but once the air was full of the well rounded production it was full on and before I know it this album had grabbed my attention as it pivotted from all out thuggish post punk to lush wonderful melodies, urgent, visceral, and abrasive, with a mix of punk, post-punk, and other influences it sounds familiar yet fresh. One thing it does is show that since the band’s inception in the late 70s, they have picked up like magpies a thing or two that has helped them grow in their confident sound and produce a most excellent listen flowing from gentler tempos like ‘Scum’ that closes out the record as something of a recovery tune to its predesessor ‘Lunatic Friend’ that is full of fire and menace just like the title might suggest. The band’s creativity around a scene is excellent, and every play delivers a new favourite song and something that grabs you that previously had washed over you.

With clever working-class lyrics and tales of everyday people we can all associate with, it helps draw you in
‘Death Of A Thousand Cuts’ and the previously mentioned ‘Scum’ are two great examples you’ll smile and ponder when listening, but the overwhelming thought will be this sounds fuckin excellent, no question about it.

Having said all that, my favourite track from the first play to the last has to be the ‘Lunatic Friend’ with its boundless energy and cheeky lyrics we’ve all drank in those pubs and have that one mate, what a killer thrasher it is, like a flying headbutt audio style. Buy this record!

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