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There’s a pretty good 5 minute edit on the latest Rough Trade Counter Culture compilation but the true majesty of the song is only revealed on the full 18 minutes and 34 second version available on vinyl. That gives the song the time to develop from girl-voiced indiepop over a snakey jazz rhythm to a melodic hardcore roar of disgust from Pink Eyes and his gang. It’s a sort of Jeckyll and Hyde story where Belle and Sebastian eat magic mushrooms and become Black Flag. It’s hard but it’s melodic too and the lyrics suck you in: are they talking about us, capitalism, or factory farming? Dunno, yet the venom almost melts the wax. Turn it over and ‘The Black Hats’ is hypnothrash with its roots in classic power-punk (Buzzcocks, Avengers) and a nice set of nihilistic lyrics: “we’ve destroyed this planet/ the end of the world is finally ours”. Phenomenal stuff - Peel would have approved.
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