By Ljubinko Zivkovic, Rock At Night Amsterdam
Review: Mike Rotten’s EP – Against All Opps-Released August 19, 2022
You can blame the late Malcolm McLaren for quite a few things, but one thing you have to give him credit for is that he had his finger on the pulse of a big part of the potential audience when he turned the burgeoning punk movement into a musical force.
When he did that, he re-named his key character from John Lydon into Johnny Rotten.
And that rotten tag has become an iconic totem in the punk movement not only then but remains among us now too. It symbolizes all the key elements of hardcore punk – from hating the system, your parents, school, basically everything you see as counter your views.
That is why it is no wonder that current artist that tries to embody all those elements of hardcore punk in his music has decided to name himself Mikey Rotten.
As he more or less puts it himself, “Mikey Rotten was “born in the swamp, raised in the gutter, and now living out in West Coast paradise.” Conceived in backwoods Louisiana, he came of age amidst the almost post-apocalyptic desolation of the Midwest, and now makes his name in a city of fallen angels.“
All that is embodied in the five, “if you cross the two-and-a-half-minute mark in your song, may you fall sick” track on his latest EP “Against All Ops.” Nothing strikingly political or social here, just your good old essence of anger and disgust with everything including yourself, played in the good old breakneck hardcore punk fashion. Just making sure that punk is certainly not dead.
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