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● Procession of the Possessed pink vinyl *
● Armchair Protest Banner #39 (organic cotton tea towel) *
● 16-page #39;Hard Times Preparation Manual #39; *
● Spot-varnished outer sleeve
● Printed lyric inner sleeve
● Hand-numbered edition of 700 *
*EXCLUSIVE to Dinked Edition
“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 th
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 firs
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.