{"product_id":"battle-of-britain","title":"Battle of Britain","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first rule of Punk is there are no rules and Vice Squad ably illustrate this with \u003ci\u003eBattle of Britain\u003c\/i\u003e. Written, Recorded and Mixed by Beki Bond and Paul Rooney in their home studio.The 13 track album opens with the blistering \u003ci\u003eRuination\u003c\/i\u003e which cuts through the bullshit of small time promoters and blaggers with consummate swagger and melody while\u003ci\u003e I Dare To Breathe\u003c\/i\u003e is an amphetamine driven anthem to paranoia. \u003ci\u003eWhen You Were 17\u003c\/i\u003e is almost-tender and tells of first tattoos and under age booze whilst the more chilling \u003ci\u003eIgnored To Death\u003c\/i\u003e rails against isolation and homelessness. The explosive \u003ci\u003eBorn In A War\u003c\/i\u003e rages along like a missile ravaging a third world country and warns See how they treat refugees? That’s how they’ll treat you and me’. \u003ci\u003eElgar’s‘Nimrod\u003c\/i\u003e reworked with a pulsating industrial bass segues into title track, \u003ci\u003eBattle Of Britain\u003c\/i\u003e where Beki's vocals soar like a Spitfire over the crunching de-tuned riff and spit fury over the hypocrisy of putting war memorials before people.The dystopian \u003ci\u003ePoverty Face \u003c\/i\u003ehits you with the opening line ‘Disinheriting the meek, slyly killing off the weak’ and is counter balanced bythe more upbeat \u003ci\u003eHow The Other Half Lives. No Evil\u003c\/i\u003e is a relentless attack on the normalisation of the suffering and death of billions of animals for the meat industry. \u003ci\u003eBattle of Britain's\u003c\/i\u003e hard hitting collection of anger and riffage pulls no punches in covering topics from austerity and factory farming to the pernicious influence of the Mainstream Media -‘Led by lies lambs to the slaughter, tax exiles say who you vote for’. Brexit, fake patriotism and cognitive dissonance all get a good kicking too.The penultimate track, \u003ci\u003eYou Can’t Fool All Of The People\u003c\/i\u003e mixes baritone guitar with violin and Celtic rhythms climaxing in an epic James Bondesque heavy guitar \/ orchestral blend and breaks every rule in the Punk Police hand book whilst pleading for unity against a rigged political system. \u003ci\u003ePulling Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e with its ominous riff and hilariously frustrated lyrics ‘Dithering jibbering solid as jam, is it fair I’m both the woman and the man’ closes the album in manic style. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Last Rockers Records","offers":[{"title":"Blue | LP","offer_id":50424747819339,"sku":"1138700","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Red | LP","offer_id":50424748409163,"sku":"1138699","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50424746836299,"sku":"1101832","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/9c911908-e0eb-4386-a969-066f1f25d4cc_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726782183","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/battle-of-britain","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}