If you know Ian Pickering from co-writing Sneaker Pimps' alt-electronic classics like 'Spin Spin Sugar,' '6 Underground,' and 'Tesko Suicide,' you're about to hear him in a whole new light — and it hits harder than ever.
Pickering's dynamic solo project The Noise Who Runs has released Re: GenX, a sharp, urgent, and unflinching alt-rock-electronic album that holds a mirror up to the generation that inherited progress and liberty... and largely failed to protect it.
"This album is a reply to my own generation — what it stood for, what it stayed silent for, and how it enjoyed progress and liberty without doing much to protect any of it when it actually mattered. But it's beyond generations, it's humanity, society - it's a class war, always has been — and the powerful rely on fear and division to stop people recognising that, even when we know all the tricks." — Ian Pickering
Sharpened by the political backdrop of 2024 and 2025 — the UK riots, Trump 2.0, and a return to Hartlepool to record vocals in the place that made him — Re: GenX documents a civilization caught in a downward spiral. Shorter songs, leaner lyrics, and more direct delivery than ever before, channeling LCD Soundsystem's urgency into something with the gothic chill of Death In Vegas.
Standout tracks include 'Bang Bang,' the anti-war anthem 'The Bodies Are Under The Bus Again,' the sharp cultural commentary of 'Just The English Way,' and the transactional nightmare of 'Commercial Road.'
StreamRe: GenX:
Spotify|Apple Music|Bandcamp
Watch the videos:
'Just The English Way'|'Commercial Road'|'Bang Bang'|'The Bodies Are Under The Bus Again'
For fans of: IDLES, Sneaker Pimps, Ian Brown, Death In Vegas, The Fall, LCD Soundsystem, UNKLE
Track List:
01 The Summer Talking | 02 Bang Bang | 03 Trust Me I'm A Psychopath | 04 This Song Sucks (Mind The Gap) | 05 Just The English Way | 06 The Bodies Are Under The Bus Again | 07 Home Front Truths | 08 We Are Breach | 09 Commercial Road | 10 All Assuming You