Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come

There's a lot to love about this album: I love how the title is a nod to Ornette Coleman, I love how they go all angular-drum-&-bass-&-squelchy 303 at times, I love how they nick Sonny Rollins' saxophone melody from Alfie's Theme for the riff of Liberation Frequency, I love the flawless production and use of samples.

It's no surprise that it was too much for a typically conservative punk/hardcore scene when it came out, so went down like the proverbial fart in a spacesuit. But it was a grower, not a show-er, as they say.

I was in the cinema a couple of years ago, watching Triangle of Sadness, and the puking scene used New Noise as its soundtrack. I fucking loved that.

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