There are a number of UK punk festivals on the calendar, and if the brilliant Rebellion Festival is anything to go by, they reinforce what has always been known – that ‘punk’ is the broadest of churches. In fact, when you strip out the ‘punker than you’ police and cartoonish stereotypes, you’ll find as much rock and esoterica in this genre as anything else. Witness the brilliant pop rock shapes of Syteria on one hand, and the inexplicably fantastically quirky Rites of Hadda on the other, both sharing an enthusiastic Rebellion audience. Punk was never a style. It was an enabling mechanism. Enter The Unit Ama and their angular math-prog-rock-jazz-folk-punk stylings. Not the most productive of musical units, this is the band’s second album in 20 years...