Patrick T. Davies is a punk poet from Manchester, UK, his visceral spoken word pulling no punches in the distinctive local twang. Combining Davies’s two EPs to date, The Agenda Bender / Terrible Twenties, plus one stand-alone single that features the talents of breakcore artist Gore Tech, this hour-long cassette tackles sizzling polemics and breadline brutality over dubby drum tracks, post-punk guitars and blunt beats that all keep Davies’s furious flow ticking over, his skills as a producer improving track by track as he learns on the job. Patrick T. Davies is a self-deprecating and dextrous lyricist who, by his own admission, has never been in a band though, Davies nevertheless strikes a humble figure, his down-to-earth qualities and simultaneous outsider allure the secret to...