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New Brutality traces the psychic distortions of a city that markets its ruins as opportunity. Think Michael Douglas in Falling Down, repurposed for the Salford tourist board, offering you a high-speed tour of roads that never loop back.

Yossari Baby’s 2023 debut album, Inferiority Complex, utilised creative doubt as its foundation. The sequel digs deeper, unearthing budget glamour, conspiracy detritus, and the logic of cities that can no longer afford their own stories.

Sonically, think P-Model's manic technopop rewired through New Order's post-punk melancholy, then fed through a DEVO blender until something gloriously unhinged comes out the other side. The B-52s show up somewhere in the gothic melodies. Irony and paranoia, comedy and menace - all inhabit the same structures. You could even call it post-punk for the post-BRAT era: pleasure sweat soaked in economic gloom.

Having sharpened their live reputation alongside Fat White Family, Acid Klaus, and Jane Weaver, the project turns its focus inward. Tim Schiazza resists the city’s nostalgia, instead charting its ongoing mutations - how spaces transform over time and what happens when energy outlasts infrastructure. The resulting album captures the interference patterns born when multiple versions of the same place attempt to coexist.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Snarling post-punk wrought through thumping percussion and saturated, buzzing synthesisers resulting in something that's rich with the punk spirit but considerably weirder than a lot of the classic-era sounds. A perfect sound for the dark, sweaty indie dancefloor.

TRACK LISTING

1. Super Cool
2. Gravity 
3. Young Carnivore
4. Eye Of The Needle
5. Porcelanosa
6. New Brutality
7. You So Bad
8. Ambition Will Eat Itself
9. My Imagination