The Hara are back with their sophomore studio record, and they’re funnelling their fire into personal resistance. Well, “back” is a bit of a stretch as they’ve been releasing a steady string of singles since they dropped ‘Survival Mode’ back in 2023, constantly delivering high energy live shows in the meantime. The good news is that if you’re already into The Hara’s neo-electro brand of emo, you’re going to love ‘The Fallout’: it’s very similar to their last record, with slightly more of an emphasis on raw personal strength. That’s also the bad news, because there’s no sudden departures on this record or dramatic genre changes. If what you’ve got is powerful, very jumpable, very accessible and fundamentally not broken, then there’s no urgent need to fix it.
It feels like there’s been some core incidents in vocalist Josh Taylor’s life over the last two-and-a-bit years, and he’s working through them. “I wear my skin like a trophy so they give a fuck about me,” he croons to open…
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