Advantages: Memorable and intelligent lyrics set to an excellent funk-rock soundtrack . Disadvantages: A couple of weaker tracks present but only in comparison to the rest of the album.
...getting their music out there. Backlash Cop, their 3rd LP is a concept album of sorts, with several songs name-checking people that the band admire, including Dizzy Gillespie, Sam Cooke and Les Savy Fav. Musically excellent throughout, Led Zeppelin and Rage Against the Machine can all be heard in the powerful funk rock of the majority of the tracks, although the band have definitely developed a distinctive overall sound. Several quieter and more ... ...the very excellent ‘Song for Sonia Sanchez’.
It is lyrically however, and through singer Andrew Ferris’s impassioned delivery, that this album really stands out. Slightly less of a call to arms than previous effort ‘Once Like a Spark’ , these intelligent poems are often more of an exercise in storytelling than sloganeering (although this is still present – see ‘White Music’ where Ferris demands of radio DJs, ‘Have you ever played anything that scares ...
Telfer2 20.06.2007
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