Themes of Contraflow

Contraflow was written at the cusp of a massive and significant change in migration patterns in the UK. In a word, from the bucolic hell of peasantry into the growing industrial cities, to now, where we see an exodus of the white middle-classes flowing back out. This time from the urban hell who's fate is sealed  behind them.

Chasing whatever they think will fix them: green wellies; posh idiot dogs chasing farm-stock; country kitchens with underfloor heating; well fed cats chewing the heads off cute vermin; to a place where it takes only two minutes to chauffeur the little darlings in the wife's Chelsea tractor, to a 'delightfully charming' and well performing (all-white) school for the socially anaemic.

'Contraflow' was a panoramic framing of this whole social dynamic, served brutally. The emotional crux of this track is found down the slippery backward and ill-conceived dream slope of the urban to country escape, only to crash into the rolling hills, of mud, floods, farms, and the folks.

Classic Fall, huge razor sharp ideas, biting lyrics, savage delivery, like he's ripping your kecks off with his teeth, chasing you over grinding metallic riffs, through a pulsating, convulsive, undulating landscape...

...slight overkill there as I can't do it justice,
but you get the picture.

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Contraflow transcript