Without a doubt, one of my favourite discoveries of 2025 has been London street punks Roxie & The Razorblades (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61576340464669). I gushed effusively about their album Eat The Rich here :
Some albums boast maybe 2 or 3 great tracks and then a bunch of decent/pretty good ones. Eat The Rich was consistently great throughout so this was obviously a band to keep an eye on.
The latest news from them is that they're working on a new album but having the knack of composing top notch tunes (that are both powerful and catchy) with deceptive ease they've made that wait easier to endure by releasing a new 4 track ep titled Masters Of War. It's available as a name your price download here : https://roxietherazorblades.bandcamp.com/album/masters-of-war-ep
Check it out, they might just become your favourite new band too.
This song is called So This Is Capitalism...
[Verse]
Broken glass streets and a cold hard stare
Empty bellies but they don't even care
This is the land of the great divide
Where dreams rot and the truth's denied
[Verse 2]
Steel-toed boots on the backs of the weak
Every shadow’s a threat every future’s bleak
They sell us war while our homes decay
Oh so this is freedom they say
[Chorus]
So this is capitalism life on its knees
Scraps for the hungry while the fat ones feast
Boarded-up futures and a clawing dread
We’re the living ghosts of the violently misled
[Bridge]
Chains of the state rattle loud and clear
Eyes in the sky feed the boiling fear
Marching orders in a uniform line
No questions asked as they strip us blind
[Verse 3]
Concrete jungles and the sirens hum
Broken promises we’ve all gone numb
Statistics charts they bury our cries
Profit and loss while the planet dies
[Chorus]
So this is capitalism life on its knees
Scraps for the hungry while the fat ones feast
Boarded-up futures and a clawing dread
We’re the living ghosts of the violently misled
