Though Marching Orders has been around for over 10 years it wasn’t until a year or three ago the band caught my attention with the, in my eyes, brilliant album “Days Gone By”.  After I heard that record it didn’t took me to add almost the whole Marching Orders discography to my collection. Now it’s 2013 and the new record “Living Proof” is there!

We got a little teaser of “Living Proof” last year with the “Songs Of Yesterday” EP, a magnificent song that raised the bar a bit more for this Melbourne (Australia) outfit for this new album. And I have to admit, when I heard the opening track “Dog Eat Dog” I thought they wouldn’t make it. In my opinion this song doesn’t reach the absurd high quality of Oi! / Streetpunk music the remaining 11 songs do have. This is just what I think of it of course, but tracks such as “Guilty By Suspicion”, “Living Proof”, “Nothing To Lose”, “Spirit Of ‘84”, “Place Called Home”, “The Party’s Over” and previous mentioned “Songs Of Yesterday” make this album one of the best records of 2013 so far, despite the false start (though the song ain’t bad to begin with).

“Living Proof” has been out for a few months now, and you would be a fool not to pick this gem up. The Australian scene is rising up again and Marching Orders belong to the top of this scene, or any scene for that matter. Superb!