When We Finally Smashed The State

Future Punx “Post-Wave”

Future Punx really commit to their premise – this is a song about the future of punk, and it’s a future that imagines the movement eventually succeeding in “smashing the state” and literally saving people’s lives. They sound like the future as imagined in the late ‘70s or very early ‘80s, which is to say… it’s actually more new wave, and rather a lot like Devo. The concept is fun, but the music is a lot better. This isn’t tremendously original in style or tone, but it’s so much in the spirit and tone of a lot of weirdo sci-fi punk from the early ‘80s that it’d be easy to believe this was released in 1981 and not a few months ago in 2015. I can get very cynical about punk, but this is the type of song that makes me believe in the genre, or more specifically, the elements of the genre that informed new wave.

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