Social Contract's 2017 release "Citizen" arrives as a lean, purposeful statement from the UK rock underground—just two tracks that distill the band's approach into something immediate and unadorned. On Speedowax Records, this vinyl captures a moment when rock music seemed to benefit from stripping back to essentials: direct songwriting, committed playing, no excess. "Citizen" and "Six Pips" sit together like two sides of the same conversation, the kind of pairing that suggests the band understood what they had to say and knew exactly how long it needed to take. There's a confidence in that brevity, and an integrity in how these songs are constructed. If you're drawn to contemporary UK rock that values substance over sprawl, this is worth hearing.