South London D.I.Y Punk kings Wonk Unit’s latest release is the tune-tastic ‘Terror. The lary ‘Day Job Wanker’ shoulder barges the album’s door open with a toe’s at ten to two attitude. ‘Christmas In A Crack House’ is a beautifully described delicate journey into an ex-addicts mind wrapped up in Madness package of piano, timing and brutally honest lyrics, it’s disarmingly brilliant. Another uptempo ditty of personal, poetry and pain is ‘Flummoxed More Than jealous’ before ‘Ride It Out’ fizzes with straw blowing Indie Pop. ‘Thank You’ is a light Reggae/Dub cut while ‘Hope’ deals with drugs, kids and a relationship-straining under the weight of addiction. The computerised 80’s Nintendo intro on ‘As The Rest Of The World Sleeps’ soon motors in and out of high rise Punk infested territory. ‘My New Safe Place’ draws an Ian Dury picture with a Chas ‘N’ Dave crayon. A roaring shouty ‘Judas Betrayers’ gives way to another pavement anthem, the self-searching ‘Faith’. The album ends with the bruising ‘She Knows It’ and a speeded-up ‘Christmas In A Crack House/Me And Curtis’. Wonk Unit may just have released one of the finest albums of 2018.
WONK UNIT
TERROR
Plasterer Records
9/10