Punk pariahs, Drastic//Automatic, exert themes of senseless violence, frustrated frenzy and parody on their monstrous third single, ‘The Cup Final’. 

The band’s third single, self-described as an ‘anti-anthem’, satirizes football culture and celebratory concepts associated with the punishing nature of the sport. Overloaded with pejoratives and dismay surrounding the greed of modern football, the track highlights the absurd anger of football fans and social attitudes towards the backwashed corporate heist of the ‘beautiful game’. Listeners embark on a gruelling early morning warm up, entering a world of uproar and revelry, as if stepping into a volcanic football stadium.

The Cup Final

Drastic//Automatic are collapsing. 

They shriek within the face of the clock’s sneering hand. The band’s fourth single serves an anxiety ridden remark upon the incessancy of time, the transient force which dictates and deprecates the subconscious.

Where is The Finish Line?

The Finish Line

Nintendo DS. The promise of prosperity. The final episode of Friends. Greece’s triumph over Portugal in the European Cup Final. The digital revolution. Shrek 2. 2004. 

Drastic//Automatic channel noisy nostalgia and new millennia misdemeanour on their electric fifth single, Ravenscourt Park, 2004. The Sheffield-based noise-punk trio combine sonic instrumentation with sardonic lyricism, electrifying ears with a sobering critique of nostalgic yearning. Ravenscourt Park 2004 marks the final single release before the launch of the band’s upcoming debut EP and stands cathartically within Drastic//Automatic’s pandemonium of disorder and disarray.

Ravenscourt Park, 2004

A Smash Hit For The People

Great West Road

Bluetooth

Finish Line

Music for people who are always running late.

Chaos runs throughout Drastic//Automatic’s mechanised bedlam. Forged from frantic anxiety, the three-piece punk pariahs fire off dystopian anthems from the gravelled depths of Sheffield’s concrete underbelly.

Drastic//Automatic

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