If 2020 has taught us one thing, it’s that ignorance is no protection against the unthinkable: environmental catastrophe, increasingly riven socio-political divides, a global pandemic which should’ve served as a wake-up call but has been met by even more utterly broken discourse. In the face of such turmoil, a shell-shocked music industry coming to terms with the dreaded “new normal” has offered a trickle of fresh material to distract from the shitshow, but little encouraging us to constructively engage with it. Thank fuck, then, for In Hearts Wake. ‘This is an emergency,’declares Crisis, a skidding 80-second electro-rock opener setting the tone for their furious fifth LP. ‘Our house is on fire.’ Picking up where 2017’s excellent Ark left off, Kaliyuga finds the Byron Bay boys repurpo...
