‘You can’t kill a good song‘, says the adage. Anyone who has heard Kim Wilde‘s take on Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve Fallen In Love With)? will be clamouring to disagree. However, as Ruts DC have proved with the two previous volumes using this stripped down, mostly unplugged methodology, it’s an adage with a vital underlying truth and we’ll have to accept that the exception proves the rule in Kim‘s case. For Ruts DC, the past is not a lazy river. It is a pool. The tensions prevalent in the broken society that prevailed when Ruts were originally on the up still boil under the surface. That’s why the mirror held up to society by The Crack album in 1979 is the same mirror that brought us 2022’s Countercultu...