The Chisel
Retaliation



Release Date: 2021 | Tracklist


Retaliation
returning harm to senders
righteous violence

wielded by oi punks
the chisel is a weapon
chip away at pricks

track ‘So Do I’
‘big ***ing bullies’ in crosshairs
‘come outside’ wanker

time to *** about?
all tracks less than three minutes
no frills no pretence

your common as muck
gang chants aren't just for frat bros
stay proud with us lads

fourteen tory years
makes these london punks weary
life is hard enough

but soon election
tories obliterated
Retaliation



Postscript

(‘review is too short’
brevity mirrors subject
get a grip sputnik

what is more fitting
than malicious compliance

paste chisel lyrics
and break the review structure willy nilly

‘Tell me why I
shouldn’t spit
In the face of
every politician who looks
to condone it’


‘No more talk, no more threats
mouthy little cunt come and show me what’s next
all this ***ing talk about what you’re gonna do
same ***ing bollocks but no action from ***ing you’)



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bellovddd
June 4th 2024


7695 Comments


i dont know what is going on but i love it mort.

Futures
Contributing Reviewer
June 4th 2024


17190 Comments


ah so that's why you were posting haikus the other day haha. must've taken lots of trial and error. cool experiment!

Mort.
June 4th 2024


26402 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

yeah i went through a period of writing a lot of silly haikus for fun about 5 years ago (not on sput just privately) and randomly got the itch again recently.



thought the idea of a haiku review could be a fun activity and it was, genuinely enjoyed writing this.





Mort.
June 4th 2024


26402 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

also these guys released their second album recently, looking forward to checking it out, would be cool for someone to review that

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
June 4th 2024


114775 Comments


Pos ahrd. Looks sick.

Futures
Contributing Reviewer
June 4th 2024


17190 Comments


definitely much more interesting than another "experimental" review that has a conversation between people lol. how long did it take out of curiosity? you had practice but still definitely takes skill to pull that off.

Mort.
June 4th 2024


26402 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

i like that fuck gets asterixed out on sput but cunt doesnt lol





also just seen that like 3 different contribs and 1 staff members have all rated the new lp, what gives guys? pull your fingers out your collective ass and review it

Mort.
June 4th 2024


26402 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

'how long did it take out of curiosity? you had practice but still definitely takes skill to pull that off.'



it took about 2 hours give or take and wasnt that hard at all, haikus are very easy considering it gives you structure and all you have to do is determine what each separate haiku or string is going to be about (the albums theme, brevity, lyrics etc)



i really could have done a much better job, im no poet and a lot of these are clunky and ideally they could have linked together much better. but i did this for fun and for practice so i dont mind.



also, once i realised retaliation was 5 syllables it was pretty straightforward lol



(although johnny did make an interesting point the other day that the haiku conventions in english copied over from japanese dont make much sense because the languages are so different)

artificialbox
Emeritus
June 4th 2024


3784 Comments


haha hell yeah dude. I should finally check this out.
I actually had the idea for a poetry game where you either pick or are assigned an album and have to write a short poem based on it but idk how it would work or be received. might be fun to try some day.

JohnnyoftheWell
June 5th 2024


64287 Comments


came into this review fully intending to neg it for not being a haiku, and uh

now i guess i'm gonna reg it for not being renga?

Mort.
June 5th 2024


26402 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

urgh, i gotta learn more foreign shit now?



brexit was meant to put an end to all that

BallsToTheWall
June 5th 2024


52578 Comments


Tooth and Nail slaps!

mkmusic1995
Contributing Reviewer
June 6th 2024


2530 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

One helluva review, Mort! Just listened to this for the first time and it slaps. Last track threw me for a loop but I dig it!

Mort.
June 6th 2024


26402 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

thank you for reading



yeah slaps for sure. last song is about of the blue but its simplicity/sincerity is very fitting for the record

Purpl3Spartan
June 6th 2024


9522 Comments


Will check nice review friendo

Mort.
June 7th 2024


26402 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

thanks bro

Confessed2005
June 8th 2024


7543 Comments


Sweet review. This sounds pretty cool, need to check it out when I find the time.

Mort.
June 8th 2024


26402 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

thanks confessed, also thank u for getting me into so much metalcore when i first joined, i read a lot of your reviews

ConcubinaryCode
June 8th 2024


8132 Comments


But does it skkkroonk?

Mort.
June 8th 2024


26402 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

nope



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