The track is from the outfit’s upcoming new LP Please Don’t Take Me Back.
It can often feel hard to find the words to articulate the shitshow that is life in the UK (and more specifically England) these days, but Durham indie punk outfit Martha seem to have done as good of a job as anybody on their excellent new single ‘Hope Gets Harder’.
The track feels like an bottled up encapsulation of the disenfranchised feelings of a growing number of people in the nation. The track is a loathing, unapologetic assessment of the state of things, done with Martha’s trademark sense of wit and charm. Throw in the band’s now signature, infectiously memorable sound and unique charisma, and the track makes for a wonderfully danceable ode to how everything is falling apart and going to shit.
Talking about the new track, Martha said: “‘Hope Gets Harder’ is a song about England: a uniquely fucking terrible idea. A place governed by the most absurdly mediocre people in history. Selfish, rich, thick, malevolent ghouls propped up by a bootlicking, self-congratulating, stenographic, client-journalist news media that puts North Korea to shame. England is a grey, damp artifice, vibrating to a quasi-fascist background hum, where the majority live miserable hopeless lives, so that a tiny minority can live in extravagant luxury. As we lurch violently from one crisis to the next, it feels like the light of any hope for the future is slowly dying. But we have to try and find hope in one another, and together we have to fight like hell for a more socially and ecologically just world. No fate but what we make for ourselves. Abolish england. Fuck the king.”
