punk this week: institute, station model violence, rifle, gylt + more
Several albums were announced this week as the punks seem to speak to the nightmare we’re living through.
Hey, it’s Punk This Week. Every Friday on see/saw, I round up the best new punk and rock’n’roll records. So many incredible forthcoming albums were announced with stellar lead singles this week. I wrote about a few of those, plus several full-lengths that seem to fit this horrifying moment in history.
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Institute: “The Shooter” [Anti Fade]
At the time, I was surprised that Institute’s 2023 album Ragdoll Dance didn’t seem to make a substantial impact on the world of music criticism. The Texas band always hits, and that was a great one. In anticipation of their forthcoming Australian tour, the band is putting out a 7” that opens with “The Shooter” and reasserts their dominance.
This is melodic anarcho where a melancholic guitar intro gives way to a rumbling and more aggro approach during the chorus. “Where’s the evidence for your armed good guy,” Moses Brown questions, seeming to gesture to the countless bodies left in the wake of the “guns save lives” fallacy. This is the correct band to encapsulate the hopelessness and rage that knot together when another mass shooting happens or when ICE straight up murders an observer in the streets.
