The soundtrack came first. Fast, snotty, anti-corporate punk, with a few detours.
On Spotify: Livewire: one weird ass album, the extended edition. 31 tracks, about an hour and a half.
On SoundCloud: where it started, with the original 13-track release from 30 September 2026.
Two so far, one for Socket and one for Mike. Sound on.
Socket's song
A lyric video set in Socket's tunnels under the city: scrap, swinging bulbs, sparks and a camera that won't sit still. 2:56.
Mike's song
A painted music video for Mike's track: rooftops, rain, a Jolted and The Wick. 2:40.
The full extended edition in Spotify's running order, 31 songs and about 92 minutes. The 13 that were on the first SoundCloud release are marked.
| # | Song | Time | Sound | About |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kettle on | 2:30 | Hip hop punk crackling with walkie-talkie static | A young scavenger on a night run for medicine, reporting in over the radio. |
| 2 | Tamaya | 3:12 | Japanese matsuri punk: shamisen, flute, taiko | Someone finds a crate of old fireworks and sets them off from the rooftops. |
| 3 | Never last orders | 3:34 | Irish Celtic punk: tin whistle, mandolin, banjo | The pub won't close just because the town is locked down. |
| 4 | We are the static First release | 3:16 | Fast punk anthem, gang vocals | The Static as a crew and a broadcast. |
| 5 | trespass First release | 2:54 | Skate punk with hardcore edges | Skating the spaces companies fenced off. |
| 6 | RENT IS THEFT First release | 2:16 | Crossover hardcore, 200 BPM | Anti-landlord rage, short and brutal. |
| 7 | Queue Jumper | 2:29 | UK street punk with an Oi! terrace edge | An end-of-the-world ration queue, and a bloke in a blazer who walks to the front. |
| 8 | Probably fine First release | 2:40 | Early-2000s pop punk | Mike's song: staying in a falling-apart city, sarcasm as armour. |
| 9 | Never one First release | 2:50 | Mid-tempo pop punk | Burnout from a job that never lets up. |
| 10 | My apocalypse First release | 2:39 | Electropunk | The end of the world treated as a party. |
| 11 | Keep calm | 2:45 | Raw late-70s London punk | Stiff upper lip versus the end of the world, with biscuit-based advice. |
| 12 | Hooch | 2:38 | Hip hop punk, Glaswegian lead | A moonshine still bubbling away in the ruins. |
| 13 | Hold still | 2:41 | Midwest emo meets pop punk | An instant camera with ten shots left, and what's worth keeping. Sam wrote the lyrics around his own long fight with depression. |
| 14 | Fuck your silence First release | 2:37 | Bratty pop punk | Refusing to keep quiet. |
| 15 | Famoso | 2:54 | Hip hop punk with Venezuelan llanero roots | Mike's other song: the board, the courier days, the comics, and wanting to be famous. |
| 16 | Curfew First release | 3:27 | Skate punk with short electronic drops | Breaking curfew in a locked-down city. |
| 17 | Chrome horse First release | 3:15 | Country punk | The board as a horse, the rooftops as the Wild West. |
| 18 | Abajo First release | 2:57 | Folk punk with corrido roots | Socket's song: living underground, building something from scrap. |
| 19 | Wet paint | 2:32 | Skate punk meets pop punk | Graffiti, skating and comics, over a hijacked corporate jingle. |
| 20 | Sign Up 2 | 5:59 | Pop punk, extended | A second version of Sign Up. |
| 21 | Sign up First release | 5:07 | Bouncy pop punk with a corporate jingle | Satire of Cleanline's recruitment pitch. |
| 22 | Recalculating | 2:41 | Skate punk with an electronic edge | Joyriding a stolen ice-cream van while the sat-nav loses the plot. |
| 23 | pest control | 2:36 | Hip hop punk | Pest control on the city's mutated vermin. Not scared of any of it, only spiders. |
| 24 | Out of stock | 2:01 | Bouncy pop punk, London lead | Raiding an abandoned supermarket. |
| 25 | No service | 2:23 | Warm emo-tinged pop punk | The phones die and the street starts talking to each other. |
| 26 | Never touch the ground First release | 3:26 | Melodic skate punk, twin guitars | Rails, rooftops and never touching the street. |
| 27 | Never touch | 3:29 | Melodic skate punk | A second version of Never Touch the Ground. |
| 28 | Good news | 2:51 | Garage pop punk with a Wurlitzer | Vance's song: back through the gate with supplies, the friend everyone's glad to see. |
| 29 | I do what I want First release | 2:32 | Fast, snotty skate punk | A flat refusal to be told what to do. |
| 30 | I don't joke | 2:45 | 90s riot grrrl punk with a Farfisa organ | Node's song, from the voice on the pirate radio who never jokes. |
| 31 | Everything Must go | 2:43 | Fast snotty punk with a honky-tonk piano | The whole city auctioned off to people in blazers. Nobody bids on the people. |
Sound tells you who owns the street. Static turf is scrappy, pirate-radio and genre-hopping. Cleanline's cordons are sterile, compressed and jingle-adjacent. Each district gets its own cue, from boardwalk surf rock gone slightly wrong on the pier to a foghorn low end in Rust Cove, and the main theme runs through all of it.
Musicians who'd like to be part of it: skate punk and pop punk at 170 to 190 BPM, a live band in a room with the edges left in, and no ska. Get in touch through Sam.