Aerial Salad mean business on this track. They’re going for the jugular with a punk as fuck track straying away from the Manc indie with a full on assault of bang on noise that detracts from your usual noise from the run of the mill indie bollocks. They look indie but are straying away from that scene. A breath of fresh air and a rush of adrenaline from the Salford massive. Bring it on and read on…
Back with another tantalising glimpse of their forthcoming album Ideal World, due 6
November via Venn Records, Manchester power-trio Aerial Salad return with new single
Survive If I Let Ye. A scathing criticism of a specific character type seen across England, the
enraged song sneers at the live, laugh, love, Peaky Blinders-loving, plush grey velvet-
owning, steroid-infused right-wing knuckleheads that pollute our air.
“The UK is facing a growing disparity among its people.” states vocalist and guitarist Jamie
Munro.
“Driven by looksmaxxing, right-wing manosphere content, this new baseline male now roams our streets, filled with misguided anger and fuelled by online fake news.The story of the song draws on an actual conversation that took place around a kitchen tableat 5:00 AM, where the main character describes how much they want someone to break
into their house just so they can beat the life out of them and expel this built-up rage. The song is told from the perspective of the storyteller.
Were Aerial Salad’s third album Ideal World simply a tune-smothered, hook-laden blast of
punk-rock energy, it would still be one of the finest records you’ll hear all year. Crack open
its sugary carapace and plug into the lyrics, however, and you’ll connect with a voice that’s
taking in all the division and misinformation and negativity of life in 2026 and seeing through
the social media-derived skull game, a band whose own lust for life and canny intelligence
suggest an alternative to the herdlike behaviour of our current dystopia. We’re stuck in a
nightmare and Aerial Salad offer a way out, by example.
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