CHUBBY & THE GANG - Mutt's Nut LP (Translucent Orange vinyl)

Label: Partisan Records

West London, UK, five-piece Chubby & The Gang is balanced by two energies - a casual "fuck it" on one side, an active "fuck off" on the other. Made up of musicians from across the consistently thriving and criminally overlooked UK hardcore scene (ft. Violent Reaction, The Chisel, Big Cheese, and more), Chubby & The Gang marinate its characteristic speed and sick-of-it-all energy in a mixture of '50s-pop sounds. The result is a prickly take on the older, more melodic genres that punk derives from, chewing them up and spitting them out into something mangled but revitalized.