In 2000, TKO released an album by Thug Murder, three Japanese girls who could play streetpunk better than just about every blue-collar British pub crawler who tried their hand at the genre. I saw Thug Murder open up for the Swingin’ Utters and Dropkick Murphys in 2001, and they were great. All energy. Punk as fuck. Then, they seemed to disappear. I have no idea what happened to them, but Ryoko, Thug Murder’s singer, is obviously singing on this Last Target record. It’s not as catchy as that Thug Murder album, but these two songs are everything you want in a streetpunk album. It’s good stuff.
–sean (TKO)