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Available on LP or CD. “HEAD IN THREATENING ATTITUDE” is the long awaited debut album by NATTERERS, who over the past couple of years following their demo/flexidisc and “Toxic Care” 7” have quickly imprinted themselves as one of the finest new bands on the UK hardcore punk scene. The album, recorded in France and mastered by the legendary Geza X (producer for DEAD KENNEDYS, GERMS, WEIRDOS, MDC, BLACK FLAG and more) are the first recordings to feature the new rhythm section, last seen in VOORHEES of Rob Bewick (ex HDQ, LEATHERFACE) and DAVE ALLEN (THE HORROR, YOUNG CONSERVATIVES) who have taken the band up yet another notch when teamed up with Thomas’ angular and powerful guitar and Emma’s crushing vocals. 14 amazing tracks that imprint and see the NATTERERS sound develop, with influences from DEAD KENNEDYS, THE DAMNED, NIGHT BIRDS all present in the mix, but a sound that is distinctly NATTERERS. No nonsense Northern punk rock!
Our take: After an excellent 7” last year, the UK’s Natterers lay their debut full length on us. I’m not sure why bands like this tend to have names that start with the letter “N,” but if you're a fan of Night Birds, No Love, or Neighborhood Brats, Natterers’ debut LP is one you need to hear. Like those bands’ records, Head in Threatening Attitude falls in that fertile space between the worlds of hardcore and more straightforward punk, combining the blistering tempos and dynamic, million-changes-a-minute songwriting style of dense, DIY hardcore with a more tuneful, song-oriented approach. Rather than watering each other down, these qualities reinforce one another, giving the LP a three-dimensionality that less ambitious bands don’t have. You’ve got tracks like the slow & brooding “Dead Men Can’t Catcall,” faster melodic hardcore tracks like “Defiant (Again),” punkier songs with more melodic vocals like “Not Long Left Now,” and herky-jerky, rhythmically complex songs like “Germs and Creeps” and “So Much More” that remind me of Group Sex era Circle Jerks or Plastic Surgery Disasters era Dead Kennedys. And there’s even an album-closing surf instrumental! Whether you’re coming at this album because you want a shot of pure punk adrenaline or you want to hear a shit-hot band light their fretboards, drum skins, and vocal chords on fire, Head in Threatening Attitude will do it for you. A real scorcher.