Chaotic, cathartic, and defiantly physical, ‘Hard Times Furious Dancing’ captured Snapped Ankles at their most unfiltered and collective. Abandoning any attempt to rationalise the overload of contemporary life, the album responded instead with movement: a call to gather, to sweat, and to dance through the noise. Fed by fractured narratives, viral culture, and the darker impulses of the present, the record held up a distorted mirror to modern absurdity. The forest no longer functioned as refuge alone, but as a temporary clearing where release became the only sane response.

Shaped through the band’s South London Forest Rayve club nights in 2024, the album translated their feral live energy into a studio setting more directly than ever before. Primitive log synths, pounding drum machines, and driving basslines locked into relentless motorik propulsion, collapsing high and low culture into a shared rhythmic language. The sound felt communal and ritualistic, engineered to pull bodies together rather than invite passive listening. By road-testing material in front of moving crowds before committing it to tape, Snapped Ankles recaptured the raw urgency that defined their earliest work, amplifying it until the ground seemed to tremble. ‘Hard Times Furious Dancing’ stood as both invitation and insistence: in hard times, furious dancing isn’t escapism, but survival.

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