Kid Kapichi: "We're talking about stuff that fucks up people's lives on a daily basis"

Debut album 'This Time Next Year' - a raucous magnifying glass cast upon society, released during 2020's lockdowns - established Hastings four-piece Kid Kapichi's motives, but it was born out of the promise of a brighter future. One that doesn't quite seem to have appeared yet.

"That was a phrase we heard a lot, 'this time next year'," vocalist Jack Wilson remembers. "Because like many other people, as we were about to release our first album, there was a worldwide pandemic. So we were just constantly hearing, 'it will get there, it will get there'."

It was also a time when Donald Trump was in power, and Boris Johnson had just begun his nefarious stint. "It was a question of, we don't know where this is going as a collective in the world, and it was scary to see," adds Jack. Suffice to say, as Jack surmises, "It's turned into something a bit darker, if anything."

You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who disagrees with him. But being the mouthpiece for Kid Kapichi, a band who put the strife of seeing the residual crap cascading down from the purported powers that be into tunes that bubble and bounce as much as they snarl in a fit of catharsis, helps. Just take a look at their recent single 'New England' featuring Upset faves Bob Vylan. A frank compendium of the mindset that got us into this mess in the first place, talking to Jack, it becomes clear they aren't just firing off shots willy-nilly.