Sydney duo End Scene provide another variety of intensive flavour from their upcoming second album ‘I Will Not Live Safe, I Will Live True’ with the raucous barbed-wire blitz of ‘Land Of Plenty’. A cathartic shouty number, it’s a slight change in tack from their usual anthemic pop, delivered in a raw punk blast fitting for it’s acerbic commentary on the state of the nation – fittingly a couple of days before the rather distasteful Australia Day holiday on 26 January (Australia being one of the only nations in the world to nominate the date of the colonisation of a country as a national day).
James Jennings, singer and songwriter, says of the track:
Releasing it close to Australia Day felt appropriate. It’s a punk song (I try to squeeze at least one on per album) that I wrote during Covid times that began as a reaction to people behaving like animals in supermarkets. A year or two later I added a chorus about the “Lucky Country” not being so lucky for everyone. It’s a song about the decline of empathy, essentially.
It’s raw, authentic and a blast of pure angry punk:
Everything’s fine in the land of plenty
Pockets are full and our hearts are empty
You can do you best to try and tempt me
But you won’t get me
It’s visceral and heart pumping stuff from this vital duo:
‘Land Of Plenty is out today and you can download/stream through the link above and here.
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