FarEnough

POISON CITY

An eight-track exercise in blunt and unforgiving catharsis, the venomous second album from Cable Ties is inescapably gripping from the first gravelly strum on “Hope” to the last whip of feedback on “Pillow”. It’s brash and scrappy and loud as hell, and intentionally so – the Melbourne proto-punks are pissed off and fired up, and they translate their grievances effortlessly into fierce political poetry and punishing pummels on a fretboard. It’s a cracking listen on wax, no doubt, but with each biting howl and crunchy riff that passes, we can’t help but wish we were watching Cable Ties smash them out onstage; they’re an ace live band, and these cuts will make ace additions to their setlist.