Saturday, 20 September 2025

The Dissidents - History Repeats

  


  In my last update I wrote "When I'm looking for music to feature on here and on the show there's a few must go to UK labels that I keep my eye on. These include Grow Your Own Records, Drowning Sailor, Serial Bowl Records, Brassneck Records and Little Rocket Records. All great labels who are very reliable. If they're releasing something you can pretty much guarantee it'll be a winner."

  Helping to prove my point are Grow Your Own Records who've just released a new album titled A Better World. It's a split lp featuring Philadelphia political punks The Dissidents (https://www.facebook.com/dissidentsphilly) and California anarcho punks D.O.V.E. 

  As always with Grow Your Own, loving care has gone into producing a beautifully packaged vinyl and cd version which you can find here : https://growyourownrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-better-world 


   The album kicks of explosively with The Dissidents offering up No Air, a song I featured on here 4 years ago https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-dissidents-no-air.html

  The album maintains this standard throughout with both bands bringing their A game.

  Today I'm going to highlight a tragically all too topical song, it's called History Repeats... 

Once again, blood is shed In back alleys left for dead As they sit back making laws Protecting life that never lived History repeats Once Again Innocent blood is shed Once again blood is shed Bodies pile on stolen land Starvation, bombs and death Ethnic cleansing not self defense History repeats Once Again Innocent blood is shed History repeats Every day History repeats

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