Gaffer - Dead End Beat [IMPORT BLACK Vinyl] – New LP

bricks to the head and broken bottles smashed on the railroad tracks, coveralls coated with tar and trichlor, hatchets hacking, jackknife in their teeth, working at it like a kid trying to break free from a jangle of barbed wire, Aussie punk rock n roll as hard as those smoke stacks on the sleeve art, smacking you around the block to the end of the dead-end street.  Another essential from the land down under. -- winchDead End Beat LP by Gaffer After releasing a demo back in 2020 and then heading into hibernation for a few years, only to pop their head out briefly for the occasional show, Perth’s Gaffer drop their debut LP. And it doesn’t disappoint! They’ve churned out twelve tracks of hard-edged punk, post-punk harking back to the scenes of the UK (the mother-land) in the 80s. Bricks, mortar, boots, rain, factory lines, and the pub. However, not a whole lot has changed and so the content of this record is also remarkably modern. It addresses the current crushing stagnation surroundin