In the end, Post Human: Nex Gen – the longest-awaited, most torturously gestated album in mainstream rock today – arrived very suddenly, a gloriously corroded data dump of tens of thousands of points of sonic information dropped last night with just a few hours’ notice.
The Sheffield pop-metallers’ Post Human project began back in 2020 with Survival Horror, a nine-track album which chimed eerily loudly with the Covid pandemic, and not just because of the noisy music: Dear Diary played on the dullness of lockdown (“The sky is falling, it’s fucking boring / I’m going braindead, isolated”) while big single Parasite Eve was written pre-Covid but seemed to pre-empt it with its tale of apocalyptic disease. One chorus couplet, “when we forget the infection / Will we remember the lesson?”, should be written on civil service whiteboards in Whitehall.
