For years, there has been a scene of bands that refuse to be pigeonholed into post-punk or any other category. These are bands that create chaos, are loud, are angry, whose guitars scratch, whose drums angrily set the rhythm, and whose vocals oscillate between primal scream therapy and a conviction for existence.
One of these bands is THE AUTHORITY. With "The Last Employer," the first album from the band from Bremen, the five musicians only partially deliver a general farewell to work, but they do make it clear what is going wrong here. There is so much more than school, work, and death.
Müco's vocals are found somewhere between primal scream therapy and a conviction for existence. It is loud, certainly also exhausting, and whatever it is, it is full of energy.
THE AUTHORITY wants to be heard. They are like the state we live in. You have to deregister, re-register, sign up anew, extend something, and find yourself obediently in the registry. After all, we are exemplary citizens, aren't we?
If there is even just one authority like THE AUTHORITY, I have hope that not everything is lost yet. However, I do not want to be yelled at like on "The Last Employer" by the authority.
