Cable Ties – All Her Plans (2023) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

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All Her Plans, the third album from Melbourne, Australia’s Cable Ties, finds the trio of Jenny McKechnie, Shauna Boyle, and Nick Brown at their punchiest and most assured. The ferocious, kraut-influenced blend of post-punk and garage rock of Merge debut Far Enough remains, but McKechnie’s lyrics invite the listener closer than ever before. The urgency and fury that have marked Cable Ties’ output thus far is more nuanced on All Her Plans. The unfettered rage of their calls to action endures-tackling subjects like broken mental healthcare systems and the burden of familial care that is largely placed on women-while holding space for gratitude, love, and acceptance. All Her Plans is a breakthrough moment for Cable Ties. It is the sound of a group that is exhilarated to be making music together again, both a celebration of their resilience and a massive step forward into a future they can finally claim as their own.Some folks get into punk rock because they just want to have fun making lots of noise, while others embrace it because they have something to say and it gives them a powerful and immediate platform for their ideas. Jenny McKechnie, the leader of Melbourne, Australia’s Cable Ties, clearly falls into the latter category, though on the band’s third album, 2023’s All Her Plans, she knows how to fill her songs with a fire and righteous fury that makes her messages as exciting as they are thought provoking. McKechnie and her bandmates (bassist Nick Brown and drummer Shauna Boyle) rock with a lean, muscular punch and wiry energy as the indefatigable stomp of the drums give the guitar plenty of room to roar with crunchy abandon. The pleasure of this band’s attack doesn’t soften the impact of what they have to say, and McKechnie is not shy about mounting a soapbox when she sees fit. McKechnie’s struggles with mental health informed her songwriting on All Her Plans, and “Silos” is a powerful, harrowing broadside against privatized prisons and faulty mental health services that literally turns the most desperate patients into criminals, while “Perfect Client” offers an only more measured variation on this theme, and “Thoughts Back” allows us a look into a less than healthy internal dialogue. Not all the news on All Her Plans is bad – “Mum’s Caravan” is a subtly moving portrait of one woman struggling to protect her kids, “Time For You” acknowledges just how much of a difference the right amount of compassion can make, and the closer “Deep Breathe Out” acknowledges how important hope can be – and how hard it is to pull off. All Her Plans doesn’t shy away from heavy themes, and McKechnie’s vocals, which travel from measured to ferocious, meet strength with strength, as her bracing, elemental guitar, Boyle’s hard-stomping drums, and Brown’s elastic bass lines reflect the emotions of the lyrics and add an emotional power that’s inspiring and commanding. All Her Plans isn’t an album for folks looking for a playful, pop-punk experience, but it’s a brave, powerful experience that’s a reminder of how much punk rock can communicate with so few moving parts. – Mark Deming

Tracklist:

01. Cable Ties – Crashing Through (04:12)
02. Cable Ties – Perfect Client (02:49)
03. Cable Ties – Time for You (04:11)
04. Cable Ties – Too Late (04:14)
05. Cable Ties – Mum’s Caravan (03:44)
06. Cable Ties – Thoughts Back (03:16)
07. Cable Ties – Silos (03:40)
08. Cable Ties – Change (03:57)
09. Cable Ties – Deep Breath Out (05:36)

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