Under Siege
My friends I think I’ve found it! A mini album chock- full of fire and devilspit (see what I did there, clever eh?) blazing through your digestive tract and burning holes in your belly. It is THE soundtrack for 2020, many have attempted to tackle this most obnoxious year but a hero emerges. C J Wildheart is the creator of these heady, punky sounds that will terrorise and marmalise you into submission. C J is frustrated, and immensely annoyed at how we have shown ourselves in this lockdown.
This year will be known as The Battle of Tesco –or any other retailer- while people less well off than us are fighting for their daily survival, we are fighting over toilet roll. You know who you are so have a word with yourselves.
The single ‘State Of Us’ is classic outrage, beautify yourselves with a clown mask, climb into the hand-basket folks and set sail to the sound of the eerie ‘ha ha ha’ at 2.31 and if you have a minute spare a thought for ‘The Ones You Do Not See’. You can taste the rage, palpable and relentless, seething in its truculence, candid and quarrelsome. Don’t look for a breather; there isn’t one and even royalty is under fire, C J is taking no prisoners. Using his delicately –ahem- constructed arrangements, brimming with king of filth bass lines and grooves to wake the dead, strap on your armour ladies and gents, its war! Speaking from his personal experience, ‘Fruit Loop’ is about the atrocious situation in the care system, we’ve lost our humanity my friends. Our nimble-fingered Wildheart invites us to share in the ‘Judas’ chant, yelling and a-hollering into the void, because we are not entirely sure that someone will hear our cries. We do not have boundless patience, sadly things have begun to worsen and it won’t be long before we all lob a ‘Shit Brick’ through the neighbour’s window.
This is a noisy, angry bastard of a record, but it’s not wrong either. It is anarchic and cacophonous; feral art from a wild heart. The year deserves such detriment and derogatory comments because of how it has panned out. We deserve a solid thrashing for our behaviour and attitude.
It is too much for even the wildest of hearts to bear.
Azra Pathan
C J Wildheart – Siege out now December via self-release