Comrades - Cats Not Cops

   Wow. Actually, make that WOW!!! I was sitting at my pc yesterday, minding my own business, and a message popped up "we play punk rock from nyc, let me know what you think, thanks." I always worry when this happens, what if i don't like them? How does someone with no musical talent whatsoever tell someone who's put their heart and soul into making a record that he isn't keen? Fortunately, within a few seconds of Comrades' We Got This!!! album, all concerns were blown away by the awesome hardcore blitzkrieg on offer. I probably don't post as much of this type of music as I should but that's because my tastes are a little (only a little) more sedate. I like a tune with my punk, something a little poppy, even if it's pretty much drowned out by a furious and frenetic wall of noise. Branding themselves a crusty/folky/anarcho/punk tribe, Comrades don't hold back, they plough through their songs, pedal firmly floored, they're super pissed off, they throw the kitchen sink in, take it out and then throw the fucker back in twice as hard. But best of all, at least to a tune loving guy like myself, they're catchy as hell. Listen close, they write great songs. hell, just get the album, it's free here : http://comradescollective.bandcamp.com/ If you like them and you live in Brooklyn, they'll probably even come and play at your house. This is Cats Not Cops, it's bloody great.....

living at this squat 
is kinda like a zoo 
theres fur balls and riots 
if yer in with future glue 
might be allergic 
but all them are oh so cute 
gatos not violence 
cat pockets not boys in blue 

yell with us if ya really mean it 
cats not cops 
throw bricks with us if ya fucking scream it 
cats not cops 
in 2d it all that were dreamin 
cats not cops 
carved in every officer slowy bleeding 
cats not cops 

before the humans 
had crow bars to open it 
claws of defiance purred 
this city, we'll take it 
kittens with sharpe claws 
they fucking crawled their way in 
meow meow meow - meow meow meow ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
the walls is where we live 

yell with us if ya really mean it 
cats not cops 
throw bricks with us if ya fucking scream it 
cats not cops 
in 2d it all that were dreamin 
cats not cops 
carved in every officer slowy bleeding 
cats not cops 

We've been swimming in illusions of a different sort of peace 
that's been perched upon our fingertips but still way out of reach
and we're waiting for the clouds to pass to feast upon the sun 
but my mouth is filled with dirt oh god and now i bought a gun 
of wits end met, we aint done yet you'll all die one by one 
fucking zombies for your state of mind you piggies better run!!