Post Post-Punk

Maybe it's the way that Shopping's new album The Official Body is growing on me so with every listen. Maybe it's the fact that Protomarytr's Relatives in Distress was my album of 2017. Whatever it is, it felt like time to post a Post Punk playlist of records released over the past couple of years that fit within that broad description.

So here are twenty songs from twenty bands that draw in some way from that rich source category. Joy Division, Pere Ubu, Gang of Four, Delta 5, Pylon, Josef K, Suicide, Devo, PiL, Simple Minds, The Pop Group, No Wave and other usual suspects feature somewhere in the DNA of most of these bands somewhere. Some of them play it relatively straight like Omni and Preoccupations. Some take it somewhere fresh and new like Palm, Ought and Algiers. Regardless of the approach all of these bands have something to recommend them. Add Australian's Total Control who haven't released anything for a while and you have many of the very finest bands around at the minute.

Perhaps it's the bleakness of our times that encourages this approach. Certainly we're living through strange days which encourage a leftfield perspective on the world. No need really for manifestos anyhow. I just hope you enjoy the playlist!