100% Punk: Before the break | Holten & Nehemias

In our ongoing series 100% Post-Punk, we dive into a movement that emerged in the late 1970s and went on to shape one of the most influential eras in modern music, spawning countless offshoots and subgenres. This series is our attempt to make sense of it all.

This episode lands just before everything fractures.

Punk, it’s a short, volatile window where things finally take form. Faster, simpler, more confrontational. A sound with a name and a sense of urgency. Inside these tracks, you can already hear the pressure: ideas stretching, structures thinning, new directions forming.

What comes next isn’t punk refined, it’s punk dismantled.

And that’s where post-punk begins.