With the world seeing problematic egotists rise to power, and with Brexit, border crises and climate change hot on the agenda, music has once again become an increasingly woke, politicised medium. But while for some playing the political game is a lot of sound and fury that actually signifies very little, for Black Futures, taking society’s ills to task is what their band was built for. With debut album Never Not Nothing, the duo have announced themselves with a brilliant collection of ‘future-punk’ (their words) songs that are very much a product of our troubled times. Black Futures live up to their name from the outset, with opener N.N.N sounding like something you’d hear in some sort of outer-space nightclub centuries from now. Trance is a similarly innovative, sci-fi-esque number ...
