There’s only one place to start, to be truthful with “Out On Bail” and its with track three. “Hip Hip Hurray”. It has one of the best, most striking choruses that you’ll hear in 2022. It goes like this: Hip Hip Hurray, Trump died of Covid today. Hip Hip Hurray Freeze his body, put his kids in a cage. Kory Clarke is the master of the sloganeering song too, and he finishes with a plaintive scream of “destroy the GOP!” One of those songs where people go: “he didn’t just say that did he?” and the thing with Clarke is quite simple. He did. He loved it too. It’s been ever thus. In 1991 when the world was losing its shit over grunge his Warrior Soul released one of the greatest records of the period, a record that sounded nothing like anything else. It has on it “The Wasteland”. One of my favourite songs of all time. I listened to it today, actually (that one sticks the boot into Trump too, in a kind of prescient way) and instantly I was the 16 year old kid screaming “I am in the Wasteland, mama, you know its true, no motherfucker is gonna tell me what to do”, but rather more prosaically, its striking that the anger in those words (the LAPD, the President, consumerism) is still the same things he’s angry about now. Listen to the anthem for togetherness “We’re Alive” that kicks off “….Bail” and it could only be Warrior Soul. Clarke doesn’t sound like anyone else and neither does the band. https://www.facebook.com/groups/warriorsoulmgmt