ALBUM REVIEW: Snapped Ankles – Hard Times Furious Dancing

The Leaf Label
Released: 28.03.25

The further the world careers down the shitter, the more Snapped Ankles’ motorik dance-punk comes into its own. Certainly, the ever-increasing demand for escapism is a tangible factor fuelling the masked forest dwellers’ fourth LP.

Whipping trademark frenetic thrust and frazzled log synths into their most focused and rounded collection to date, Hard Times Furious Dancing is also first time they’ve come near to translating the chaotic electricity Snapped Ankles channel onstage. With its gloriously campy wolf howls and explosive bass surges, Raoul seems a certain centrepiece for every live show in the foreseeable future, while Personal Responsibilities (“they don’t apply to very large companies!”) is on hand to ensure the villains of the piece never slip from our minds, no matter how heady the antidote.