Last week Red Scare Industries unexpectedly released Refuse To Lose, a brand new three track EP from Sam Russo that follows on from last years Back To The Party full length. There’s a familiar tale with many albums that were launched just as lockdown started to be rolled out across the globe, unable to tour to promote the album he got, as the press release so delicately put it, “totally boned”. However this is no pity party, the title of the EP should you give you a good idea of what’s coming, this is a defiant return that coincides with a more hopeful feeling that things might start to move back to something approaching normality. If you expecting Russo’s latest offering to follow the lead of Back To The Party, a heartfelt album of what could almost...