Is It Really Living? EP

Nekra hit a decade in the game with Is It Really Living? blazing out at full volume. The international pit sisters are back with press-ons, bared teeth, ferocious howls and whiplash tempo switches, keeping their maximum steez and minimal regard for men’s feelings fully intact.

Across nine minutes of boiled fury, the band pushes into new ground with fresh pacing and flow. These songs salute Imane Khelif and everyone fighting under the sign of woman, while also taking on the layered, contested meanings of Latinidad.

There is a call here for universal freedom of movement against the violence of borders, and a deeper sense of solidarity in practice: not just showing up, but sticking around. The struggles remain, the times are intolerable, and Nekra sound unbeatable still.