Snapcase Share First Recording In Over 20 Years From New Refused Tribute Album

It’s difficult to explain just how monumentally influential Refused’s 1998 album The Shape Of Punk To Come was to the underground punk genre, which later spilled over into, of all things, the pop music space. In the decades since its release, scores of artists have adopted bits from the album’s title (which itself references Ornette Coleman’s 1959 album The Shape Of Jazz To Come), plus songs from the album. For example, Paramore’s “Born For This” from 2007’s Riot! references the song “Liberation Frequency” by quoting the lyric “We want the airwaves back.” In 2015, HOLYCHILD released The Shape Of Brat Pop To Come. In 2010, Steve Aoki and the Bloody Beetroots remixed “New Noise.” That shivery riff from “New Noise” is also a recurring motif on The Bear. I could go on, but you get the idea.