Snapped Ankles - Hard Times Furious Dancing

Hard Times Furious Dancing is the fourth studio album by secretive forest dwellers Snapped Ankles - it follows 2021’s Forest Of Your Problems (Rough Trade Shops' Album of the Month).

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 the 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.