At what point does the post-punk revival become the post-post-punk revival? Or the post-punk revival revival even? It’s been a long time since the likes of Interpol, Bloc Party and the rest revived the genre in the early 2000s, and the sound got another shot in the arm from the likes of Idles, Fontaines D.C. and Dry Cleaning only five years or so ago. At this point, the sound of rumbling dub basslines, haunted vocals and wiry punk rock doesn’t seem as though it’s going anywhere, rather it’s an established, key element of modern guitar music.
Which brings us to Crows. The London quartet have been releasing music since 2015 and have evolved from the garagey indie rock beginnings of debut single Pray, through the driving melodic hardcore and choppy Joy Division-isms mash-up of 2022’s excellent Beware Believers, into a third album which grasps tightly onto the established tropes of post-punk.
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