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GENRE | PUNK? POST PUNK?
VERDICT | NOT THOROUGHLY DEAD
LABEL | IN THE RED
RELEASE | 11.13.12
Twining tracks with growling baselines, driving rhythms, and the always-welcome use of the word “chode,”
Racism is an album that deals with conformity, identity, and restrictive social structures in the best tradition of punk rock.
It will remind you why punk rock was compelling the first time you listened to it, featuring pensive post-punk pieces with classic themes like “love gone wrong” and “ditching your family to live in the park and protect the tree.”
What will surprise you is the tone: UV Race nimbly flits between the blistering punk tracks, like the old-school hardcore track “Nuclear Family,” to gently meandering tracks like “Life Park” without losing the soul that brings life to the whole record. While the pace isn’t quick enough on most tracks to flip the same auditory switches that got you moshing to the Dead Kennedys, this album is highly recommended for the kind of punk who liked the Clash’s weird experimental stuff from Sandinista!
While the record does end on more of a whimper, with the maundering “Memenome,” there’s something to take out of every track on this record.
