THOSE FUCKING SNOWFLAKES – EP REVIEW


Those Fucking Snowflakes – Straight Wealthy
White Male Suffrage

Release Date: 19th June 2020

Like the horsemen of the apocalypse, Blackpool’s truth-sayers Those Fucking Snowflakes are here with their new EP, the beautifully titled ‘Straight Wealthy White Male Suffrage’. For the uninitiated, TFS like to brutally dismantle everything that’s wrong with society like a mix of Idles and the Manics but with wigs and northern accents. The opening track of the EP is ‘Only Weak Men Fear Strong Women’ which starts with a raw, rattling garage guitar followed by blasting drums and the kind of vocals that have to be shouted because they are angry and they have to fight to be heard above the rest of the band.

Next up is ‘Boris Johnson and the Big Red Bus of Bullshit’ which, aside from being one of the most blunt song titles ever, is an assault on the senses that encapsulates the rage of one half of a divided nation by generally abusing a bunch of instruments and screaming with a semblance of control. There is, however, a change of pace and tone at the end of this song which is frankly beautiful as the whole band chime in to sing “Fuck You. Fuck You Boris Johnson”. A song title like ‘Meat is Murder, but Morrissey’s a Dickhead’ has a lot to live up to but this 136 second romp does just that as it speeds it’s way through an angry rant about, well, a lot of stuff but mainly Morrissey being a preachy right-wing dickhead.

On ‘Carnibores’ the band let loose at meat eaters in general with punk ferocity with a catchy, sing along middle-eight of “B-B-B-Bacon, B-B-B-Bacon…..Bellend”. The EP closes out on ‘Tangerine Pirate of the NHS’, a song with a certain piratical charm but mostly with the kind of punk-rock chops that would tear the roof off any venue – assuming they get to play live again at some point. Those Fucking Snowflakes are the sound of anger and hate aimed at a society that has got everything upside down right now. If these guys are snowflakes then I’d get the fuck inside because they look like they might be cut out of razor blades.

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