A&R Factory on Tax Wealth, Not Work: "A Budget-Day Panic Attack Weaponised into Sonic Protest"
Amelia Vandergast at A&R Factory has reviewed Tax Wealth, Not Work, and the headline alone — Post-Hardcore for the Post-Brexit Class War Dystopia — is a better pitch for the song than anything I managed to write.
Socialism ignites against sonic brutalism in Tax Wealth, Not Work, the post-hardcore juggernaut by Brighton-based insurgent powerhouse, Box of Rules.
The review gets what the song is for. It was written for “anyone feeling crushed by an economy dead-set on grinding the working class into dust”, and the line about it sounding like “class consciousness with its jaw wired shut and still screaming through blown-out amplifiers” is roughly how it felt to record.
The bit I'll be quoting
It was about time we got a budget-day panic attack weaponised into sonic protest.
The lyrics, apparently, “could have been written by Gary the Economist after he had been injected with venom”. The vocals get compared to Bob Vylan and Hyphen; the bass-driven instrumentals to FalKKonE and Nekrogoblikon. I'll take all of that.
Read it, then hear it
The full review is on A&R Factory. The single is on every major streaming platform, and the lyric video is on the home page. If it lands, the best thing you can do is share it with someone who is also sick of being told there's no money.