Disaffect – Blood Red Seas EP
A new EP featuring three brand new songs and one re-recording Disaffect show there is still life, and anger, in the old dog yet.
This record is just as ferocious as Disaffect were back in the ’90s and with their trademark fast chuggy sound, dual vocals and punishing drums. The A side songs are both concerned with the persecution and murder of whales. “Blood Red Sands” is a descriptive analysis of the Grind in the Faroe Islands, in which pods of pilot whales are driven into a cove and bludgeoned and hacked to death staining the sea and sand red. Disaffect compare the people hacking away at the pilot whales together as a family in an act of community barbarism, with the whales being slaughtered together as a family, a community under attack.
Meanwhile, “The Last Giant” is a lament for whales being hunted to extinction in the open seas and is a re-recording of an older song.
On the B side, “Brace” is a really punchy tight number with a broad self care message about personal autonomy. “Cos I Look Different To You” has a whole heap of melodic tuneage lurking in amongst the fast and fuzzy thrash. The song questions human attitudes to non-human species. It sets out how animals are tortured in laboratories and even if they are free from cages, animals are hunted, trapped and poisoned. It finishes abruptly with the question “Tell me, will this murder ever stop?”.
There is definitely life in the Disaffect dog yet, as the three new songs on this EP show.
