RAWLS ROYCE – Punching Canadian Punks Nail It With New Alarming Haymaker ‘WOE, TORONTO’
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26 October 2026
Band: RAWLS ROYCE
Who: Punching punks from Toronto who fuse melodic hooks,
anthemic choruses, and beer-soaked gang vocals with political
subject matter.
Track: WOE, TORONTO
New single.
“This is a song about the many struggles of living in Toronto, told through the lens
of the malaise of the Great Depression era. Not unlike today, the 1930s were a period of widespread disillusionment with the political, social and economic conditions of the city.
The protagonist dreams of running away to Spain to fight fascism in the Spanish Civil War. However, the Mackenzie-King government passed the Foreign Enlistment Act in 1937 making
it illegal to do so.”
TUTV: These Canadians point out, rightly so, that the traumatic shock of the great American depression of the 30s, which led to a global economic drama, seems to be
back today to haunt humankind once again. History repeats itself, not always for the
good, as we know.
They wrote a harsh haymaker, as powerful
as a Rolls Royce, about their impressions.
Roasting riffs fly around, bass and drum work tightly together to pump
up the pressure, exuberant vocals add oil to the fire and the clamorous
chorus doubles your bloodstream’s pace. Imagine Green Day and Blink-182
running amok together.
Enough detonative racket to awake the neighborhood, so you’d better
go to your basement and listen to this detonative racket in there, to avoid
problems with the police.