Disposable Dogs vs Disposable Dogs

I know in this little "vs" feature I've done every now and again, I will usually  review two different bands or two different records that somewhat go together, at least in my mind they do. But this time however, I want to write about the same band's two LP's since they both came out so close to one another and both seem to kind of tell a story. Maybe not a linear story in the traditional sense, but definitely a tale told in two parts, in spirit and sentiment. A story that is relatable to most in these recent, turbulent times that is easy to wrap your head and emotions around. Or if you choose not to go down that particular rabbit hole, look at it in terms of an impossible struggle, loss, and desperation that is sure to ignite a time most refer to as the apocalypse. The songs on these two records are the hymns of devastation, there's no mistaken that. You can choose how close you want to let them in. How many Christopher Nolan themes can I lift for one post, you be the judge! 
 

Disposable Dogs - S/T LP (No Front Teeth Records / Take The City Records) 

This LP dropped in the later part of 2025 and it was near impossible for me change around my list of best record of the year, since I had already done so like 100 timers already. If this record had come out just a little bit sooner, it definitely would have made the cut. Disposable Dogs feature members of all kinds of modern Oi! and Punk bands like The Gaggers, Oil!, Trenchkoat Scunthorpe Yobs etc. Musically they fall into similar camps as Street Punk like The Riffs mixed with "Kids of the Black Hole" bleak yet melodic Adolescents, and all this is attached to some brilliant anthemic Cocksparrer like choruses. Powerful enough to raise your fist and declare truth! The war is not over and if defeat should arrive in the dead of night like a cold fog, it will not signal the end, so declarith the Disposable Dogs! The fighting human spirit will not go gentle into that goodnight. No goddamn way! The struggle will continue on the rubble amongst the dust, the fires and these songs will be screaming in the distance like air raid sirens.  

Disposable Dogs - Living In The Fallout LP (Bovver Pressed Records / No Front Teeth Records)

If the band's first self-titled LP were the anthems of going forward into battle, Living In The Fallout are the hymns of the resistance after the war was lost. The quality of the songs is still there, like a friendly flag, shredded by shrapnel, seen only in the distance during flashes of random explosions. This record is darker, meaner and dug into the trenches of the battlefield. Because that's what it takes to win the war, it's time to go lean and shed all that is non essential to victory. Instead of giving one the strength to gear up and jump in head first into the melee, these songs make you want to put your fist right through the conquerors that somehow snatched victory out of your bloody, war torn hands. Whether it be socially, philosophically or economically, you take your pick, select your war. But no matter which front you wish to descend upon,  Disposable Dogs will be there to ignite the fires in the engines of resistance and make sure they never falter. Remember, "it is always darkest just before the Day dawneth" - Thomas Fuller 1650.

LP's available at the links below: 

Take The City Records - www.takethecity.shop

Bovver Pressed Records - www.bovverpressedrecords.com

No Front Teeth Records - www.nofrontteeth.co.uk