From just the name and song title alone, the band’s self-proclaimed tongue-in-cheek nature is apparent. Some might roll their eyes. They would be wrong.

Their debut is a riotous song about the taboo, but all-too-familiar, topic of getting a UTI. The chorus is surprisingly catchy, and there are plenty of chant-along moments that I’m sure get a great response at their already wildly popular live shows. But the thing I love most is just how unabashedly silly the lyrics are:

“Popped a suppository and hoped for the best.

It wasn’t even worth it. It wasn’t good sex.”

Despite the silliness, front woman Katie Mac says that ‘UTI’ is “for everyone to shout, laugh, cry and generally express your anger about…medical problems [experienced by those assigned female at birth] and maybe we can change the narrative.” And I think that’s what Twat Union achieve here. With this explosive feminist anthem, they make the topic of UTIs unavoidable. This is what punk should do, blow these taboo topics wide open and laugh in their face.

In a scene that is often tied up in gatekeeping and taking itself too seriously, I always welcome a little silliness in punk. And more often than not, it is women and femmes who take on this work in the face of the men who will tell them over and over that they don’t belong, and that their music isn’t valid. From Lambrini Girls, to Scene Queen, and now Twat Union, make punk silly again.