Snapped Ankles - Hard Times Furious Dancing: 'Procession of the Possessed’ Pink Vinyl LP + Tea Towel DINKED EDITION EXCLUSIVE 327 *Pre-Order

Released Friday 28th March 2025
All pre orders will be fulfilled/made ready for collection on that date.

DINKED EXCLUSIVE 327

DINKED EDITION 327 £29.99

• 'Procession of the Possessed’ pink vinyl *

• 'Armchair Protest Banner' (organic cotton tea towel) *

• 16-page 'Hard Times Preparation Manual' *

• Spot-varnished outer sleeve

• Printed lyric inner sleeve

• Hand-numbered edition of 700 *

*EXCLUSIVE to Dinked Edition

Side A

Pay the Rent
Personal Responsibilities
Raoul
Dancing In Transit
Side B

Where’s the Caganer?
Smart World
Hagen Im Garten
摆烂 Bai Lan
Closely Observed

“We can still hold the line of beauty, form, and beat. No small accomplishment in a world as challenging as this one... hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof” Alice Walker, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing (2010)

Snapped Ankles have given up trying to make sense of it all. The forest only offers so much protection. Feeding on a diet of fractured narratives, meme culture, viral moments and the very worst of human impulses weighs heavy. The woodwose hold up a mirror to the absurdity of modern life once again. The only sane response is to dance. Make your way to the clearing, gather around the megalith of speakers, drum machines, amps and synthesisers and dance like there’s no tomorrow.
Hard Times Furious Dancing is an invitation to all those lost in the unrelenting noise of the present, to leave it all behind and come together in the forest. Driven by the primitive thrust of their single-oscillator ‘log’ synths, high and low culture collide in a surreal, free flowing narrative - but the rhythm is universal. This is easily the closest Snapped Ankles have come to capturing their rapturous live energy in the studio. It’s everything you’ve come to know and love from a Snapped Ankles album, amped all the way up until the ground begins to shake. 
The sound of Hard Times Furious Dancing evolved at Snapped Ankles’ South London ‘Forest Rayve’ club nights in 2024 in response to that age-old primal urge to bring people together and make them move. It’s the first time the woodwose have road tested new material to this extent before committing it to tape since debut album Come Play The Trees, and in doing so have harnessed that feral energy once again. This surreal human/woodwose connection is the very best release from an algorithm that knows you better than you know yourself. Dance it all loose. 

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