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Health & Social Care

by Grey Hairs

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Jack
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Jack More ethics in noise rock Favorite track: Hydropona.
Tim Mee
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Tim Mee Loud, lairy & fun. What’s not to love? Favorite track: Piss Transgressor.
betsyhighland
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betsyhighland new to exploring bandcamp and stumbled across this disk and absolutely love it. fav is hydropona
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jeznee SO GOOD I BOUGHT IT TWICE FFS!!!! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU WAITING FOR!!?! Favorite track: Piss Transgressor.
Si Donbavand
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Si Donbavand I fucking LOVE Grey Hairs. Everything they've released, I have bought. I go to as many gigs as I can & was eagerly awaited this album after hearing Tory Nurse and MAN was I not disappointed, its absolutely bloody brilliant. Best album to-date. Great work Favorite track: Ghost In Your Own Life.
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Hydropona 05:42
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Capable Man 03:03
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Tory Nurse 03:05
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The Nag 02:25
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Glugs 04:41

about

Having spent 2018 touring with Sleaford Mods, Hey Colossus and Brooklyn's SAVAK, Nottingham punk rock lifers Grey Hairs have announced their third album 'Health & Social Care' - a scorching reflection on balancing your creative impulses against the commitments of impending middle age.

Their first output since 2016's 'Serious Business', 'Health & Social Care' is an expansion of the band's sound that recalls elements of The Birthday Party, Laughing Hyenas, The Jesus Lizard or of a downer-fuelled B52s and what surf music sounds like coming from the most land-locked part of the country.

In the video for new single 'Tory Nurse', directed by David Lilley, we're taken on a sloped and queasy trip through rural Derbyshire that sees the band tasked with delivering a body (later revealed to be a clown) to an undisclosed location. The fate of the clown is never revealed beyond disappearing into a hole in the ground, in a droll and absurd attempt to address the core ideas behind ‘Health & Social Care’ and the inevitable mystery of things to come.

2016’s 'Serious Business' saw a clear sharpening of the band’s focus. The clue was in the title. What started as an offshoot to the members’ proper bands reached that wonderful point where it becomes an entity all of its own and steers the ship as though an invisible 5th member. And that member was steering things in directions none of the others had ever anticipated.

'Health & Social Care' expands on this. Its rage is tight and deliberate and its themes more explicitly stated. This is not a bunch of guys mimicking their youth (or other people’s youth) and balancing their weekend anti-establishment anger with their job as a software developer, or vintage furniture dealer, or credit check specialist.

If 'Health & Social Care' has a theme (and again the clue is in the title) it’s “how can someone be a public sector punk in 2019?”. Commendable though most political music is, it’s perhaps easier to articulate your rage at the system when you don’t spend over 40 hours a week working in it.

But what if you do? What if your punk rock ethics extend to your occupation?

This is a record about balancing your creative impulses with your life as you get older and the time to do either squeezes in on you. It’s a record about aesthetic punks, Dunning-Kruger syndrome in the Health service, extreme 360-degree cognitive dissonance and – most crucially – a confusion and inability to tackle these external problems because you’re so f*cked by your own personal ones.

credits

released August 2, 2019

Hairs:

James - Vocals
Amy - Bass & Vocals
Dave - Drums
Chris - Guitar

Electric piano on "Breathing In, Breathing Out" by Max Credit

Recorded and mixed by Phil Booth at JT Soar, Nottingham
Additional Recording by Grey Hairs at Way-Out Is The Way Out
Mastered by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering
Cover photos by James
Live photos by Simon Parfrement and Julie R Kane
Portrait photos by Siobhan, Jon and Photomovette
Sleeve by Chris

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Formed in 2011. Records on the Gringo, Hello Thor and God Unknown labels.

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