From the twitching of Barratt Home blinds to the kebab-sauce stain on a freshly mowed lawn, Death Of The Neighbourhood’s new album is the soundtrack to a future of hooded, flick knife-wielding insurgents taking over.
It’s an expansive, electro-punk assault that rails against the nine to five brigade like a lit firecracker through the letterbox.
From the sound of it, you’d expect a crack team of hooded hustlers with a liking for Aphex Twin to be behind it, but its mastermind is actually the man behind former ’90s band Babybird, Stephen Jones. ‘Death…’ may at points sound like the chaotic erosion of civilisation, but Jones is eager to stress it’s about “living life to the full”. We’ll get our spray paint, then.
Death of the Neighbourhood’s self titled album is out on Atic Records on November 10th. Read Clash’s review of it here.
Listen to ‘God’s Not Coming’ from the Clash issue 32 covermount CD below.
