If you're looking for a band that embody everything hardcore punk should be, then you're looking for Birds in Row. Sonically, they're fearless. Lyrically, they're as poetic as they are recusant. And live, they're a ruthless force, matching the power of their music with boundless, must-see energy.
After debut album You, Me & the Violence sparked listeners' imaginations, 2018 follow-up We Already Lost the World was an unyielding inferno of brazen ideas. Metal Hammer UK called it "intelligent, poignant art," writing that "this downward spiral changes pace and weight at every turn." It screamed for mutual respect in a world of increasingly extreme political divides, and used the vehicles of punk, post-hardcore and post-metal to carry its cries.
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