TV FACE - WOLF RENTS BARK (2025) Hi-Res

If the seasonal silly song or a festive forced-fun sing-along is the norm this time of year (and you only have to wade through the sonic detritus that is my in-box to see that it is), then TV Face, bring us the antidote to such simpering sentimentality. Or, as they so eloquently put it, they have given us a “festive protest song instead of creating more landfill Christmas-themed shite.” Well, quite!

A gnarly, intense, and incendiary blend of raw guitars and twisted riffs, industrial,depth-charge bass boom, primal beats, and accusatory vocals form a scuzzy salvo that delivers a world-weary musing of innocence slipping into disillusionment as politicians drop the aloof yet statesman image and try to cosplay as the guy next door, someone who wants to be your best mate.

Don’t fall for it; they are not like us, they don’t live in the same world, and they don’t have your best interests at heart. As the world grows darker, as storm clouds gather on the horizon, as the world becomes politically entrenched, divided, and unempathetic, cultish and childish, so much so that even the powers-that-be seem not to bother hiding their unethical and self-serving behaviour, we wonder what the new year will bring.

More of the same? A light bulb moment of realization of how we are all being played? A change in direction? The rejection of this new, far-from-normal norm? Who knows? All I know is that it is up to us, the man in the street, the voter, the increasingly refusing-to-remain-silent majority, to bring change. And as we do so, “Happy New Year” is the tune we will be dancing to.