Active on the label 2008-2009

The Fourth Criminal arrived in the wake of collapse. After the split of The Thought Criminals, one half of the band continued under a slightly altered name, recruiting new members and reshaping the project into something less intoxicated by scene glamour and more committed to the raw essentials of making songs. What remained was the appetite for danger, attitude and after-hours voltage—but redirected into a more grounded, hard-edged and purposeful form.

With She’s A Doll and the album All Morals Are Relative, The Fourth Criminal pushed further into electro-punk seediness, stripping away some of the decadent theatre of the earlier group without losing the appetite for friction. The songs feel dirtier, more street-level and more direct, as if the band had traded celebrity fantasy for lived-in damage and machine-driven urgency. For listeners drawn to the uglier, more honest edges of electronic rock, The Fourth Criminal offer a post-split reinvention that does not retreat—it tightens the screws.