First off, good luck trying to make what the lyrics to these new set of SPY songs are. There’s definitely words smattered about and they’ve got intention behind them, but attempting to distinguish what exactly is being shouted is a fool’s errand. You might be able to make out a word like “police” here and there from the snarled mouth of vocalist Peter Pawlak and it’s definitely not in an honorary direction, but – along with song titles like “No Redeeming Value” and “Big Man” – this paints the picture of the kind of contempt for society and its villains which the Bay Area hardcore punk band gnash their teeth into on their debut full-length, gloriously titled Satisfaction. SPY are also not an outlet of clean execution either. This is ugly, feral hardcore which across the 13-minute chase scene of 10 tracks, unravels in a fast slaughtering of swaggering noise as the band’s collective electrical discharge creates a thick film of static and saliva being spewed onto everything. The band seemingly love to feed off this angry intensity and that on-the-brink-of-war energy that’s made them a cult live force in the scene over the past few years, and it shows in their ability to give it purpose. On Satisfaction, SPY are genuinely getting their kicks off properly going all in on it.

Highlights: “Surveilled”, “Do What I Can”, “Big Man”

SPY’s Satisfaction is available now on Triple B Records.

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