{"id":94337,"date":"2023-08-18T12:40:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T11:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=94337"},"modified":"2023-08-18T12:40:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T11:40:50","slug":"harker-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/harker-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Harker Release Political Protest Anthem &#8211; &#8216;Medicine&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brighton punk quartet\u00a0<strong>Harker<\/strong> have released a new single called <em>\u2018Medicine\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The rousing number is inspired by the current climate of a post-lockdown United Kingdom. &#8220;\u2018Medicine\u2019 is a furious protest anthem,&#8221; <strong>Harker<\/strong> explained. <em>&#8220;It&#8217;s pushing back against politicians cashing out on the misery of working-class people, and capturing the anger of a country currently rifting through a class struggle.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the third single the four-piece have released this year, following\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/harker.bandcamp.com\/track\/out-the-window\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>&#8216;Out The Window&#8217;<\/em><\/a> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/harker.bandcamp.com\/track\/wasting-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Wasting Years&#8217;<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Medicine\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/3XsqrmRyUUZDtotnvpE0p7?si=155cf9b0692643df&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brighton punk quartet have dropped their third single of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17559],"tags":[178],"class_list":["post-94337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-harker"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Harker Release Political Protest Anthem - &#039;Medicine&#039; - Already Heard Staging<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Brighton punk quartet have dropped their third single of the year. 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