Reason To Believe: Crows are still making an important post-punk racket

For many people, being in a band is dream job. At least, it used to be. These days, it’s a lot harder than it was to make it an actual career. Except for the increasingly lucky and increasingly few, music has become something most bands have to do in addition to a the grind of a nine-to-five. Crows, the London-based four-piece – vocalist James Cox, guitarist Steve Goddard, bassist Jith Amarasinghe and drummer Sam Lister – aren’t one of the lucky ones, but they’ve found a way to incorporate that into their songs: by writing noisy, nihilistic and abrasive post-punk anthems that decry the fact capitalism sucks most of the joy from life by forcing humans to work. That involuntary subordination to the system was very much reflected in Crows’ first two albums – 2019...

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