Gallows: Grey Britain

If you love being grabbed by the throat, pinned to the wall and shouted at for an hour, this apocalyptic punk-prog is for you, says Alexis PetridisOne currently popular theory claims hard times give birth to great music. The credit crunch, it suggests, might lead to an explosion in socially aware pop of a kind unseen since the Specials and the Jam colonised the charts in the depths of the early 80s recession. It might not happen, not least because the charts of 1979-82 seem the exception rather ...

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