New album: Bloods || Together, Baby!

Australian punk-pop trio Bloods are back with a new full-length album, Together, Baby!. The LP kicks off overwhelmingly with Radical, a hypnotic Latin American protest chant featuring trumpet, trombone and gang vocals: “Vamos a cambiar el mundo // Ya temenos el motivo” (Let’s change the world // We already have the reason). After that, Marihuzka “MC” Cornelius exchanges Spanish for English, but it should be clear that she’s unstoppable: “It’s a big bad world // And I’m so done with being the nice girl” (from BOSS). Thematically, the focus in the following songs shifts to what life is all about: being together. The message in I Like You, in which Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace guests, sounds hopeful: “Not sleeping alone anymore // Never sleeping alone anymore.” The lyrics are given even more expressiveness by the melodic and infectious accompaniment by Dirk Jonker and Mike Morgan. Anger and love go hand in hand on this release, and it works out well.

Together, Baby! is out now digitally and on rainbow splatter vinyl LP through Share It Music.

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