THE BETS - B-Side (2020)
A nice album, one of those that you start listening to and you already know you’ll reach the last track. You dedicate some time to it, dedicating that time to yourself as you discover the tracks, the arrangements, the lyrics. And you like the raw way of singing, disenchanted—not "polished" like Oasis, not crude like certain wonderful hardcore creations or avant-garde (exotic or continental) works. It keeps you company, it makes you feel at home with the drums that go overboard when the vocals follow a predictable progression (no, no surprising twists).
And you wonder if the untamed part is a part of you or if it still has a meaning to show and live on the outside, in the everyday life of society. It’s a matter of attitude, as one of the greatest punk bands ever once claimed.
But today, attitude no longer seems to be a distinctive trait in bourgeois society, not even in the rejected part where any form of criticism, rebellion, or alternative to the (banality of the) system used to be confined.