The Ex Vinyl & CDs

Review: The Ex's 45th anniversary is this year and this new 7" 'Great!' helps celebrate it. This record shows their continued defiance and creative evolution. This Dutch band remains as adventurous and challenging as ever. Both tracks, pulled from their current live set, are brimming with energyiurgent, willful, and joyfully obstinate. 'Great!' pulses with raw punk intensity, while 'The Evidence' is a gritty, adventurous exploration of rhythm and melody. Refusing to be nostalgic, The Ex pushes forward, blending genres like jazz, noise and world music with their anarcho-punk roots. It's a thrilling reminder of their enduring vitality.

Review: Originating in 1979 from the squatting movements of Amsterdam and Wormer, The Ex are one of the most dynamic, experimental and longest serving punk acts of the original Dutch scene, known for their anarcho-punk ethos, seamlessly blending elements of noise-rock, jazz, noise, no wave, free improv and traditionalist folk stretching from Hungary to Turkey, Ethiopia, Congo, and Eritrea. With over 20 full-length LPs to their succinct moniker thus far, If Your Mirror Breaks is the first album from the collective since 2018's 27 Passports, continuing their fearless sonic expansion with a ten-part series of surrealist daydreams, calls to action, ominous warnings and bursts of vitality tapped into the pulse of time.