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Hailing from Stevenage, England, the first new town to be declared under the
1946 New Town Act, Bad Breeding are an anarcho-punk four-piece delivering
punishing blasts of ferocious noise that draws influence from the original British
pioneers of the scene; Crass, Rudimentary Peni, and Flux of Pink Indians. More
than perhaps any other contemporary punk band, Bad Breeding seem
preternaturally able to make music that sounds the way it feels to live in today’s
world. After almost a decade’s worth of work, they offer no easy diatribes about
the failures of neoliberalism, the war on the working class, and the unfolding
horror of climate change. Instead, in complex layers of sound and structure, Bad
Breeding projects a viable path forward: envisioning a future unfettered by the
state and finding power in community, solidarity and worker-led organisation.