Live punk rock albums should never sound polished. Once you take away the sloppy guitar playing or fluffed lines you lose the spirit. Thankfully Summer of Hate, which features five bands from Dublin (Razortown, Primitevo, Septic Pussy, Roosky and Paranoid Visions) playing live in Fibber Magee’s a few months ago sounds as raw as a paper cut on your private parts (god knows how that would happen in the first place though). Each band gets two tracks and highlights include the US Bombs-esque swagger of Primitevo and the impassioned thrash punk of Roosky, whose ‘Extraordinary Rape Of The Soul’ is so abrasive it should come with a government health warning. Up the punx.
Key Track: ‘Extraordinary Rape Of The Soul’