HOME FRONT: Games of Power CD

Canada keeps producing post-punk like the cold never left. Home Front's Games of Power lands somewhere between the brittle anxiety of early Wire and the synth-corroded menace of Devo, but with a bleakness that feels very much like right now.

The Vancouver outfit has been quietly building a reputation in the darker corners of the North American underground, and this 2023 album is the clearest argument for paying attention. Synth-punk with teeth, new wave with no interest in being pretty about it. If you grew up on the goth and industrial end of alternative music and you've been waiting for something that actually earns the comparison to its influences, this is it. The kind of record that sounds like fluorescent lights and bad news.

CD album, released July 2023. Canadian pressing. Genre: post-punk, synth-punk, new wave.

Fans of: Wire, Devo, Minimal Man, Savages.