{"id":18709,"date":"2022-05-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=18709"},"modified":"2022-05-09T09:03:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T09:03:12","slug":"bob-vylan-the-price-of-life-ghost-theatre-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=18709","title":{"rendered":"Bob Vylan- ‘The Price of Life’ (Ghost Theatre Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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I first clapped my ears on Bob Vylan way back when a certain \u201cLynch your leaders<\/strong>\u201d became my go to track as we worked our way through the first Covid 19 lock-down, then we got hit with \u201cWe live here<\/strong>\u201d and the rest is history, I\u2019ve watched Bob Vylan gain traction and get to the point of exploding into the general conscience, and as I type it rumours abound that this baby The Price of Life <\/strong>has hit the charts!!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now let\u2019s just say this in no reflects a move towards a more socially acceptable standpoint, no movement towards commerciality, and keeping it independent launched on their own Ghost Theatre Records what more could you want?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is Brutal stuff a nihilistic expose of Tory led policies, outing the far right and the decision makers who stand in the background profiteering from the latest under the counter deal. As the LP opens you get drawn in with the \u201cWalter Speaks<\/strong>\u201d sample and then \u201cWicked and Bad<\/strong>\u201d tears your face off social-commentary up front and centre. There\u2019s no let up as we move into\u201d Big Man<\/strong>\u201d and \u201cTake that<\/strong>\u201d and that link between grime and punk seems more relevant than anything out there at the moment, both movements born in the underground and each movement within their individual generations ripping into that Tory led new world order, and what we have to do to survive and earn enough to live. By the time we hit \u201cPretty songs<\/strong>\u201d your hooked and then everything moves up another gear, this is seriously good, from the punk side of things I keep being drawn back to Crass comparisons, while from the grime side I can\u2019t help linking it to Lowkey, (check out terrorist) and some of the early Akala stuff, socially aware but not with the edge presented by this beauty. \u201cTurn off the Radio<\/strong>\u201d is fckin\u2019 immense, this is a heavier LP than the first, at times it draws on grunge, while at other times we\u2019re into straight out hardcore punk, while at others we link in brutal industrial, right up my street, that heavier lilt really hits you with \u201cGDP<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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