{"product_id":"free_rein_to_passions","title":"Free Rein To Passions","description":"\u003cp\u003eFree Rein to Passions is the fourth studio album by Hamilton, Ontario punk rock trio The Dirty Nil — Luke Bentham (vocals\/guitar), Kyle Fisher (drums), and Sam Tomlinson (bass) — released May 26, 2023 via Dine Alone Records. The 10-track record was born out of a deliberate back-to-basics philosophy following the comparatively polished Fuck Art (2021), with frontman Bentham describing it as \"a bit of a nastier record where we didn't sweat the small insignificant details — if it sounded cool, we went with it.\" The album opens with \"Celebration,\" which cuts in on a chugging, thrash-metal-inflected riff before launching into the infectious pop-punk and hard rock swagger that defines the rest of the record. Lyrically, the band keeps things deliberately unencumbered: songs about grinding through soul-crushing day jobs (\"Stupid Jobs\"), trying to be a kinder person (\"Nicer Guy\"), and finding joy in life's absurdities — with Bentham summarizing the album's philosophy on the title track as \"a pledge of allegiance to the banner of human joy.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonically, Free Rein to Passions pulls from an eclectic range of classic rock and punk touchstones — the hair-metal strut of the 1980s, classic arena rock, Weezer-indebted power pop, and thrash metal — without ever feeling like a purely retro exercise. RANGE described it as \"an aggressive onslaught of energy that cleverly overhauls metal, punk, and hard rock,\" while Hear a Single praised it as \"anthemic, riff-laden joy\" with Bentham's vocals equally at home with the hooks and the noise. The album closes with the atmospheric, lighter-in-the-air ballad \"The Light The Void and Everything,\" a melodic outlier that divided some critics but underscored the band's willingness to let instinct rather than formula guide the record from start to finish.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Store","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl \/ Album - Picture Disc Vinyl","offer_id":53630313627962,"sku":"38581","price":30.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/2041\/0682\/files\/Screenshot_2026-06-19_at_4.46.36_PM.jpeg?v=1781902104","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.ca\/products\/free_rein_to_passions","provider":"Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}