Five years into their life as a band, London duo Bob Vylan<\/strong> have given notice that they’re to be taken seriously – and then some.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bobby Vylan (vocals) and Bobbie Vylan (drums) are fiercely independent, manage themselves and have released this third album – which could be their big breakthrough – on their own label.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Blending UK hip-hop, grime, punk and electro, and throwing in the odd slice of spoken-word poetry, they fuse the anger and energy of all those genres, and bring with them with serious messages about what it’s like growing up as a young black man in Broken Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After debut album Dread <\/em>in 2019 and the follow-up We Live Here<\/em> in 2020 they’re back with album number three – heavier, angrier and more essential than ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They pull no punches as they sing about racism, class, mental health, social inequality, the price of healthy eating (which they both advocate) and the extremes they’ve seen people go to in order to survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Take recent single Pretty Songs<\/em>, where Bobby spits: “No liberal lefty cunt\/Is gonna tell me punching Nazis ain’t the way\/If you wanna hold hands and sing\/Go do it over there while the big boys play, okay.”<\/em> Message received and understood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n