NUKIES: Paralysis Of Fear Vinyl LP

Swedish punk has a particular strain of fury that doesn't need leather jackets and safety pins to prove itself, it just needs the right riff and a room full of people who already know the words.

Nukies arrive from Stockholm with Paralysis of Fear, a 2024 full-length that sits somewhere between the anxious energy of early Hives-era garage punk and the more melodic grit of Scandinavian punk rock. This isn't nostalgia tourism, it's a band who understand the form and have something to say inside it. Tracks like Miserable Life and Devour Concrete do exactly what those titles promise, blunt, propulsive, and a little mean in the best possible way. The kind of record that sounds better on vinyl than it has any right to.

Tracklist: Miserable Life, Oblivion, Up To No Good, Devour Concrete, and more. Swedish pressing, 2024.

Fans of: The Hives, Refused, Viagra Boys