KRAUT Vinyl & CDs

Review: How does it feel to be unemployed? Well, depending on your politics and circumstances - and in turn, how you look at it - such a state can either feel like complete uselessness or complete freedom. When it came to releasing their debut single 'Unemployed', hardcore punks Kraut knew just as much about the latter state of mind as they did the former. Channelling the fury of the anti-work movement so adjacent to the punk scene - "make those stiffs live in fear... don't give 'em a chance to organize!" - the single amounted to a scathing and knowing take on political disunity in England and the discontent bubbling under. Now reissued via New Red Archives as it first appeared in 1981, it comes alongside two equal stonkers, 'Last Chance' and 'Matinee'.