{"id":17375,"date":"2021-12-15T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=17375"},"modified":"2021-12-12T14:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T14:22:20","slug":"social-experiment-everything-is-connected-to-everything-else-blind-destruction-deviance-mass-productions-maloka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=17375","title":{"rendered":"Social Experiment \u2013 \u2018Everything Is Connected to Everything Else\u2019 (Blind Destruction\/Deviance\/Mass Productions\/Maloka)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Three years can be a mighty long time in the music industry with styles and tastes changing with the \u2018next big thing\u2019 and bands going out of fashion almost overnight. However, in the three years since south Wales punks Social Experiment unleased their brutal (and totally unfashionable) \u2018Rumours Of Our Demise Are Not Greatly Exaggerated\u2019 debut, the planet on which we reside has become one of intense and constant upheaval, with the next big thing (musically at least) being the last thing on anyone\u2019s minds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

What Social Experiment skilfully do with \u2018Everything Is Connected to Everything Else\u2019 (their long overdue second long player) is take those things and use them to shape the soundtrack to our seemingly never-ending apocalypse by delivering a dozen razor-sharp missives that would be guaranteed to have Daily Mail readers instantly up in arms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the UK\u2019s escalating homelessness problem courtesy of \u2018System Failure\u2019 to the political corruption of \u2018Social Experiment\u2019 via the illegal breeding of designer dogs, castigated by \u2018Fashion Accessory\u2019, nothing is seemingly off limits, with even that mate you had who has now become a bit of racist cunt due to the fallout from Brexit even getting a mention during \u2018I Don\u2019t Like Your Attitude\u2019. Puddle (vocals), Newt (bass), Nicky (drums) and Paul (guitar) literally blaze through their set in a little over thirty two minutes and at times they make me wonder is this what an early Discharge jamming with Slayer might sound like? There\u2019s even time for some levity at the end of it all via the Dirtbox Disco-esque \u2018Drinking After The Bell\u2019. It\u2019s not all doom and gloom you know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anger might very well be an energy but when it\u2019s used positively and comes all wrapped up in a glorious production\/mixing job courtesy of Danny Guy and Jason Livermore, you can\u2019t help but feel inspired by the likes of \u2018Thank You \u2013 Fuck You\u2019, \u2018Destitution\u2019 (complete with a spoken word intro courtesy of ole toad face Farage) and perhaps the band\u2019s most commercial track to date, the excellent \u2018Same Shit, Different Day\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I sat down to write this review, the rock world was waking up to the tragic news that the Angelic Upstarts\u2019 legendary frontman Thomas \u2018Mensi\u2019 Mensforth had lost his battle with Covid. Now you may be wondering why I mention this here in summing up? Well in Social Experiment the legacy of Mensi\u2019s work, in not just music but also his fight and spirit, is very much still alive, and I couldn\u2019t help but smile as \u2018System Failure\u2019 came blasting out the speakers angry as fuck, it actually had me thinking \u201cthis one\u2019s for Mensi.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And who knows, maybe, just maybe, Leonardo DaVinci really was onto something when he said \u2018Everything Is Connected to Everything Else\u2019 all those years ago \u2013 even when it comes to punk rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To find out for yourselves if the Italian polymath really was indeed correct, click on the following link and go order your copy of the album on LP or CD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author: Johnny Hayward<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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