
Hard Times Furious Dancing by Snapped Ankles
Formats: CD (BAY 134CD) Black vinyl LP (BAY 134V) Limited edition indies only ‘Don Quixote’s Green’ LP (BAY 134VX) Limited Dinked Edition ‘Procession of the Possessed’ pink vinyl LP + ‘zine + tea towel (700 copies) (BAY 134VD) Limited edition Bandcamp only ‘Weird & Eerie’ luminous LP (700 copies) (BAY 134VBC) Digital (BAY 134E)
Release Date: 28 March 2025
Snapped Ankles have given up trying to make sense of it all. The forest only offers so much protection. Feeding on a diet of fractured narratives, meme culture, viral moments and the very worst of human impulses weighs heavy. The woodwose hold up a mirror to the absurdity of modern life once again. The only sane response is to dance. Make your way to the clearing, gather around the megalith of speakers, drum machines, amps and synthesisers and dance like there’s no tomorrow.
Hard Times Furious Dancing is an invitation to all those lost in the unrelenting noise of the present, to leave it all behind and come together in the forest. Driven by the primitive thrust of their single-oscillator ‘log’ synths, high and low culture collide in a surreal, free flowing narrative - but the rhythm is universal. This is easily the closest Snapped Ankles have come to capturing their rapturous live energy in the studio. It’s everything you’ve come to know and love from a Snapped Ankles album, amped all the way up until the ground begins to shake.
The sound of Hard Times Furious Dancing evolved at Snapped Ankles’ South London ‘Forest Rayve’ club nights in 2024 in response to that age-old primal urge to bring people together and make them move. It’s the first time the woodwose have road tested new material to this extent before committing it to tape since debut album Come Play The Trees, and in doing so have harnessed that feral energy once again. This surreal human/woodwose connection is the very best release from an algorithm that knows you better than you know yourself. Dance it all loose.
Hard Times Furious Dancing will be released on CD and digital, and in four vinyl formats including black vinyl, a limited edition indies only ‘Don Quixote’s Green’ vinyl edition, and a Bandcamp only ‘Weird & Eerie’ luminous vinyl edition of 700. There is also a Dinked Edition of 700 on ‘Procession of the Possessed’ pink vinyl, which also includes an ‘Armchair Protest Banner’ (aka a tea towel) and a ‘Hard Times Preparation Manual’ booklet.

1. Pay the Rent
2. Personal Responsibilities
3. Raoul
4. Dancing In Transit
5. Where’s the Caganer?
6. Smart World
7. Hagen Im Garten
8. 摆烂 Bai Lan
9. Closely Observed OTHER
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