HMRC
Adenosine

Geordie punks HMRC have come crashing out of the Toon with a new single that doesn’t bother with subtlety. Adenosine is rowdy, sharp, and reflects HMRC's determination to get their message out there in a time when a lot of bands prefer to keep quiet. They’ve been pretty clear about it themselves, protest music has gone missing and they’re here to drag it back into the light.

There is no slow burn with Adenosine it is full on from the get go.  Gloriously gritty guitar hits you immediately with bass pushed right to the front, drums pounding creating a wall of sound. Everything is lusciously loud in the mix, so you don’t get a chance to drift off or wait for something to happen. It’s all already there piled on all at once and its unapologetically loud.

Lloyd’s vocals feel more like an argument than a performance. Rough-edged, a bit unsteady at points, but that works in its favour. You can hear the frustration, and it fits with the rest band playing around him.

Adenosine lands somewhere between punk and post-punk, with nods to the bands that kicked open the doors before them, but it still sounds very much their own. This isn't the work of a band that is interested in glitz and glamour associated with the music business, or pleasing the masses by fitting into any preconceived notion of how a band should write and perform, but just the sound of a band from Newcastle shouting back at the world and doing a great job of it.