{"id":11640,"date":"2025-01-13T18:26:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T18:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipamusic.co.uk\/?p=11640"},"modified":"2025-01-23T19:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T19:12:13","slug":"mc16-release-new-single-ground-control-ahead-of-debut-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipamusic.co.uk\/?p=11640","title":{"rendered":"MC16 release new single Ground Control ahead of debut album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Midlands punk trio MC16<\/strong> release a new single this week ahead of their debut full-length album proper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The band believe music should challenge, confront, question and entertain, and they play a short, sharp shock take on classic punk rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They released their debut EP Outvoted By Robots<\/em> (reviewed here<\/a><\/strong>) in 2019, with a mini-album \u2026 No Blood No Guilt<\/em> collecting all their early releases in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Decent Pubs And Murder<\/em> was the first taste of their new material in May 2023, and they released One From Another<\/em> four months later, and Data Donors<\/em> at the end of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New songs<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

2024 saw two more tracks, Polytechnic, <\/em>in February and Shoot ‘Em Up<\/em> in September. Now they’re back with Ground Control<\/em>, taken from their first full-length, Machine Code<\/em>, which will be self-released on February 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It sees the trio at their most fiery, with a strident vocal, searing guitar, fuzzy bassline and pounding drums, and it’s a mouth-watering taste of what the album has in store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bassist Quinn explains: \u201cGround Control<\/em> is basically what the internet has become. People are told not to trust the government, don\u2019t trust mass media, don\u2019t trust the police, doctors, even each other, and we should question anything they say or just call it a lie.<\/p>\n\n\n

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MC16. Pic: Will Hutchinson.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

“However, if it’s a complete stranger posting something online then we are told to believe it, it must be true – no smoke without fire and all that.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drummer Duffy adds: \u201cSocial commentators have more followers than credible media, so because of that they are being afforded more sway and influence now on public opinion and sentiment, and people take what they say at face value. No fact checking going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Similarly, if about three people share the same opinion on social media then it\u2019s being interpreted as being the nation\u2019s opinion. It\u2019s very scary!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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