Trinidad and Tobago probably isn't the first place that comes to mind when you're thinking of great punk rock bands but that's where Anti-Everything (https://www.facebook.com/antieverythingtt) hail from.
They've been around for a decade and a half now. You may have caught them on their recent UK tour (which included an appearance at the Manchester Punk Festival of which Chris Oliver commented "My highlights include southern-Caribbean band Anti Everything, who communicate the anti-fascist and anti-globalisation message with an exceptional mix of laser-pointed rage, powerful music and thoughtful persuasion").
They've also recently released a blistering new album titled True Love. It's 11 bursts of energetic hardcore that not only has something to say but brings steel drums to the punk rock party. You can check it out here : https://antieverything.bandcamp.com/album/true-love
This is the opening track. It starts off in a restrained fashion before bursting in to glorious noise. It's called Crime Factory Model...
Now listen up my friends, sit down, together we go tell a story
Of how the nation came to be corrupted and modelled on a factory
It gets set up in communities, and fueled by political means
To produce money, violence, and power, in this colony
Keep people in destitution, no support or intervention
Contracts are exchanged for votes and mobilisation
The profit is an input into criminal operations
As gangs displace the role of community organisation
Mass produce human suffering
To commodify civil suffrage
There’s no space for human dignity
In the nationalised crime factory
It is in d party’s interest, to keep yuh in dependence
We can come into power on a platform of vengeance
Capitalise on retribution, rather than offer solution
Because solving this problem breaks the very market we rely on
Ba da da da da dam die die
We’re all gonna die die die die
Ba da da da da dam die die
Sans Humanité
Of how the nation came to be corrupted and modelled on a factory
It gets set up in communities, and fueled by political means
To produce money, violence, and power, in this colony
Keep people in destitution, no support or intervention
Contracts are exchanged for votes and mobilisation
The profit is an input into criminal operations
As gangs displace the role of community organisation
Mass produce human suffering
To commodify civil suffrage
There’s no space for human dignity
In the nationalised crime factory
It is in d party’s interest, to keep yuh in dependence
We can come into power on a platform of vengeance
Capitalise on retribution, rather than offer solution
Because solving this problem breaks the very market we rely on
Ba da da da da dam die die
We’re all gonna die die die die
Ba da da da da dam die die
Sans Humanité
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