“When it’s looking dark, punch the future in the face,” Kurt Vile advised us many years ago. Few bands have taken on this challenge with more gusto than Home Front, the fearless synth punk duo from Edmonton whose sophomore album, Watch It Die, arrives with the violent catharsis of landing a haymaker to the teeth of death.
“In this time of madness / How does this beauty survive?” Graeme MacKinnon shouts on the album’s soaring title track. The answer, it seems, is to cram into a studio with your best friends and crank up your instruments until they’re about to give way.
It’s a formula that MacKinnon (vocals, guitar and bass) and his bandmate Clint Frazier (synths, key, drums and programming) first explored on Home Front’s acclaimed 2023 debut,…

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