Daily Edit | Oct 24

Spiritual Cramp have tapped into something special on their sophomore album Rude, a nod to the budding UK punk, ska, and reggae scene of the 1970s. While these genres have persisted with new artists popping up daily, few bands have captured the right combination to truly emulate that period. Spiritual Cramp manage to do it five decades later, channeling London grit through San Francisco fog. It’s a sound they’ve been chasing since day one—those first EPs were all snarl and speed, but you could already hear the tug toward something catchier. Their debut flirted with that punk-meets-dub swagger, but Rude is the real arrival: confident, danceable, and steeped in the kind of attitude that made this genre of music exciting in the first place. -Paste

10 / 24 / 2025

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