It's about dashed, stomped-to-death hopes about us all solving our problems and getting things right. Their new EP Headlines continues in that vein, though is more generally focused on expressing white-hot anger/exasperation over humanity's abject failure to live up to its extraordinary promise. If you caught The End Times' terrific self-titled debut ( read my review), you know that their brand of Armagideon ska-horn-driven, aggro '90s style modern ska paired with body-slamming Fear-like hardcore vocals-was a good antidote/commentary on the horrifically cruel and morally bankrupt MAGA years. The racist, anti-democratic creeps still lurk in large numbers among us. My level of existential dread has waned a bit, though it's still lodged in some recess of my gut. Lucky for us, the forces of sanity reigned (for now), so I have some hope for this country. I wish I had first listened to The End Times' ferocious and bitter new Headlines EP before the recent midterm elections when it seemed like TFG's goon squad of fascist candidates were destined to ascend to the levers of power in many state and federal offices and drag our country closer to the straight, white, male, evangelical-nationalist, authoritarian hellscape they literally pray for.
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