Home Front – “Slice Of Paradise” & “Jupiter”

Earlier this year, the Edmonton band Home Front released their full-length debut Games Of Power. It’s a hard album to describe, and it’s one of my favorites of the year. Clint Frazier, one of Home Front’s two leaders, used to be in dance-punk also-rans Shout Out Out Out, and there’s definitely some dance-punk in Home Front, but that’s not really what they do. It’s more accurate to say that Home Front combine full-on feral stomp-your-face oi with sleek, brooding synthpop. That combination makes absolutely no sense, but it works beautifully.