Just when I thought my best-of-2024 list was almost done, my favourite U.K. garage-punk duo rear up once again with a new EP of their magnificent bullshit. Hallelujah and goddammit all to hell.
For those who are already familiar with the Get The Fuck Outta Dodge experience, rest assured that Just.Keep.Looking.Forward bears all the usual hallmarks you have come to know and love (or at least grudgingly tolerate) from the gruesome Sheffield twosome of James and Ren: Megaton bass riffage from the former. Relentlessly walloping drums from the latter. And let us not forget an absurd amount of killer melodies, savage lyrics and frenzied grooves — all stuffed into 90-second songs captured on the fly with no-fi production, zero filler and negative fucks given. Can you give a negative fuck? If anybody can, it’s these guys.
Anyway. To sum up: This might be their best work. Then again, it might be total shit. Or both. It’s a fine line with these two, you know? At times, it almost has a Beastie Boys-in-their-punk stage vibe to it. Maybe it’s my brain damage talking, but I’d say GTFOD are getting dangerously close to competent. This keeps up, somebody’s going to have to accuse them of selling out pretty soon. But it won’t be me. Unless it is. Either way, now I have to add this bad mamma-jamma to the year-end list. Fuckers.
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Get The Fuck Outta Dodge present to you Just.Keep.Looking.Forward, their fourth LP/EP/whatever, which will be released to people other than us on Dec. 24, 2024… unless it comes out before then.
Hot on the heels of Dodge Coup II, an EP with their Socks On label chums Coup De Tete, Get the Fuck Outta Dodge are ready assault you sensually with their new EP Just.Keep.Looking.Forward.
Eight slabs of kick-ass bass riffage and smashed-up drums, with a soupçon of chaotic throat-mic yelping that will sneak up and slap you round the face then disappear into the ether before you know what’s happened.
Made with unrequited love in an overbearingly hot room in S6, recorded and mixed by themselves and titivated round the edges by Socks On Steve, Just.Keep.Looking.Forward is 14 minutes of yr life that you don’t mind not getting back.
The Celebrity Deathmatch-inspired video for Unoriginal Pioneers of Justice (could have been a sequel to Original Pioneers of Justice if it wasn’t just the same song), slipped out as a video teaser on Dec. 11.”
