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ALBUM REVIEW: The Mistakes – A Good Hill To Die On (Time & Matter Recordings)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Mistakes are a five-piece punk band from the unlikely punk rock enclave of Poole in Dorset, and A Good Hill To Die On<\/em> is their fourth album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I first came across them when they released their previous LP A Head Full Of Damage<\/em> (reviewed here<\/a><\/strong>) in 2021, and loved them immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They trade in rousing, full-pelt punk rock anthems full of riffing guitars, pounding drums, pumping basslines and catchy choruses, along with some biting social commentary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have a famous fan in the shape of UK Subs legend Charlie Harper, who guested on their last record, and this is their first album for the Subs’ long-time home, Time & Matter Recordings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recorded over a week in October 2022 in Milan, A Good Hill To Die On<\/em> is a blistering call to arms, and I reckon it’s The Mistakes’ best record yet, which takes some doing, given what’s gone before.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A Good Hill To Die On<\/em> is The Mistakes’ fourth album.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Ross Sutcliffe (vocals), Shane Creech (guitar), new bassist Angus Simpson, James Gould (guitar) and Lewis Willoughby (drums) kick up one hell of a racket, and I’d defy anyone who likes their punk rock served loud to not like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opener Chaos Theory<\/em>, about our looming climate catastrophe, takes off like a missile, full of fire and defiance, with Sutcliffe sounding for all the world like Animal from Anti Nowhere League circa 1982.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I, Savag<\/em>e is about feeling powerless to stop mankind destroying the planet “like a dinosaur staring at the void, praying for an asteroid”.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Mistakes are from Poole in Dorset.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Drink Up, Boys!<\/em> has a Celtic punk feel to it, like Flogging Molly or Ferocious Dog with a harder edge, while Drop Too Much<\/em> is about fondness for alcohol going too far, with our protagonist concluding: “I’m coming apart like a struck pinata”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The breakneck Heathens <\/em>is a two-fingered salute to those who decry the punk scene, with Sutcliffe telling them: “You wanna try and convert me? This is what I believe in” and urging naysayers to “get down the front and feel alive”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hack The World<\/em> slows the pace a little, and talks about wealth distribution, while the title track, A Good Hill To Die On<\/em> centres on the very modern phenomenon of wars around the world being played out on our TV screens, and our view of such conflicts depending on where we live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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