Raw Milk Conspiracy put Britain in the dock on debut album 'British Justice Pt. 1'

On their eagerly awaited debut album 'British Justice Pt. 1', London band Raw Milk Conspiracy turn distrust, frustration and political disillusionment into a deliberately provocative strain of underground rock, approaching social commentary with the kind of sardonic humour that prevents the record from simply becoming a collection of angry slogans.

Across tracks such as 'Enjoy The Decline', 'Carbon Neutral Genocide', 'Trust Me', 'Recipes and Football Scores' and 'Far Right Conspiracy Theorist', the band repeatedly challenge institutions, political narratives and contemporary social orthodoxies from their own anti-establishment perspective. Whether we agree with every conclusion is almost beside the point, as Raw Milk Conspiracy clearly want the record to provoke an argument rather than offer any kind of comfortable background listening.

It's an approach that recalls the sharply observational side of British alternative music. References to Pulp, Cabbage and Fat White Family make sense less as direct sonic comparisons than as indicators of attitude. After all, this is music prepared to peer at contemporary Britain, find something grotesque or ridiculous, and push it back towards us all with a crooked smile.

Their personality has also been sharpened through extensive underground gigging while the album was being recorded. There's a sense of material designed to survive outside the studio here, by being direct enough to connect immediately, but argumentative enough to keep generating conversation afterwards.

'British Justice Pt. 1' never pretends to occupy neutral ground. Its worldview is confrontational, cynical and deliberately against the grain, with Raw Milk Conspiracy presenting contemporary Britain as something to question instead of quietly accept.

And for a debut album, it's one that kicks the door open and starts cross-examining the room.