"Country Kills" was Popstrangers reimagining golden-era Britpop as the stuff of political firebrands. "Oh my country will kill me now / but whatever": the cognitive dissonance on the hook drills deep in your cortex. "Don't Be Afraid" isn't so uniformly pretty, and thrives in the extremes of a faltering relationship: hunched, tuned-down guitar chords vocalize a desperate internal anxiety, then everything suddenly jumps into a whirling psilocybin colour wheel. You may not overthrow capitalism to it, but there's the sound of another big, painful change on the way.
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