STONE – Liverpool Punk Rockers Unleashed Their 2nd Album ‘AUTONOMY’
21 February 2026
Photo @charliebarclayharris
Band: STONE
Who: Post-punk-rock indies from
Liverpool, who formed in 2019.
Album: AUTONOMY
Their 2nd one, following their
attention-grabbing, 2024 debut
Fear Life For A Lifetime.
Press info: “Ever since their rapid rise in the depths of lockdown,
Liverpool’s Stone have tended to thrive best when leaning into the
chaos.
Having further sealed themselves as a vital force on the global punk scene with their 2024 debut album Fear Life For A Lifetime, the band are back with a follow-up that’s loaded with their most reflective and bruising work to date. Autonomy comes as a fierce testament to the band’s resilience, fighting spirit and togetherness.”
TUTV: Loads of bursting post-punk brawniness. Loads of stooked guitar oomph.
Loads of barnstorming vocality. But (oops, there’s a but) a lack of really memorable
tunes you want to go back to in a flash.
The Beatles-esque title track, steamed-up singles Monkey See Monkey Do and
Money (Hope Ain’t Gone), riff-ripsnorter Stack Up Thd Reasons and fiery fulminations
Moulin Rouge and Sweet Heroine are muscular blowups that have an immediate impact,
but no a very lasting one. The rest of the songs are just variations, sonically that is,
of the aforementioned pieces.
Loads of evaporative vitality to make you jump out of your bed in the morning, but once you’re alive and ready to kick, you change the tune, well, I do. Yep, mixed emotions about Stone‘s 2nd longplayer.
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