The Punk Site 2023 Top 40: #1 Grade 2 – Grade 2

With the year about to come to an end in just a few short hours, and many of us working hard on starting the New Year with a hangover, it’s time to present The Punk Site‘s favourite album from 2023, and this year it’s the Isle of Wight’s Grade 2 with their self titled album that was released back in February through Hellcat Records. The eponymous album is their most representative work yet, Grade 2 is a thumping fifteen track tour-de-force melding the uncompromising ethos of punk with the howl of contemporary injustice, personal identity, and frustrations of Gen-Z youth, authentically told by three lads with punk coursing through their veins. “There have been so many bands in my lifetime that give you a reason to, shout and fight against a systemically wrong w...

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