Drastic//Automatic are best known for their dystopian anthems from Sheffield’s concrete underbelly.
‘The Cup Final’ is the band’s third single and is self-described as an “anti-anthem”, satirizes football culture and celebratory concepts associated with the punishing nature of the sport.
The song begins with heavy beats and powerful guitar riffs and then the raw vocals and rock melodies get cranked out by Drastic//Automatic.
Overloaded with pejoratives and dismay surrounding the greed of modern football, the track highlights the absurd anger of football fans and social attitudes towards the backwashed corporate heist of the “beautiful game”.
Listeners embark on a gruelling early morning warm up, entering a world of uproar and revelry, as if stepping into a volcanic football stadium.
