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 At points on this glorious act of galloping lunacy it feels as if
you’re being sensuously lobotomised by a higher power. It is as if the
devil has drilled holes above both of your ears, God has put his lips
to one of the apertures and then blown your brains out the other side
so it sprays across a canvas like a Jackson Pollock.
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 Greetings, citizen of Eurasia, resident of colony GBv6.0. Please state
serial code and expiry date to any hovering micromonitor and proceed to
Aquadome for daily cleansing. The State reminds all citizens to keep
their ResUnits appropriately free of contraband; more pertinently, any
citizen harbouring the works of the known fugitive gang referred to as Muse
will be re-educated. And the State will again reiterate its commitment
to the eradication of emotion: in Eurasia, to love is to die.
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(Reuters) – Be afraid! The Prodigy, the British dance band who swept the world with their violentlyrics, scary videos and techno-punk style a decade ago are back with a bang. The London-based trio have returned from a spell in the wildernessfully re-charged and with a new album "Invaders Must Die" which drawsheavily on their early rave roots. Technically, they never went away but the road back to recordingtogether again on their fifth studio album "Invaders" has been a longand hard one. "It's a misconception that the band broke up, but we don'tcare," Liam Howlett, theProdigy's producer and main writer, told Reuters in an interview in Tokyo. "Around 2003 was a turbulent time for the band. Me and(vocalist) Keith (Flint) weren't speaking for about a year.
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Newport’s very own Goldie Lookin Chain are a group that will say exactly what they want when they feel like. ASBO4LIFE is the latest creation from the Welsh lot and as always they stick to their loud outspoken tradition. After being dropped by major label Atlantic records GLC did not fret, instead they rented a sturdy house in Newport and got to work on ASBO4LIFE. After two years cooped up they are now ready to unleash the brand new album.
Goldie Lookin Chain have the ability to write witty lyrics that leave the listener entertained as well as creating music that is equally amusing. ASBO4LIFE discusses a range of topics such as drugs, DJ’s and unemployment. Each song experiments with different sounds. Tracks such as 'New Day' feature the GLC male choir as well as a piano and proves that the group are not afraid to try new things. Debut single off the album 'By any means necessary' is upbeat and has an extremely infectious chorus that is guaranteed to build up hype for the release of ASBO4LIFE.
Regardless of whether GLC appeal to you, credit has to be given to them for always producing music that is honest and unforgettable. The Welsh group will embark on a 24 date tour at the end of February to promote the latest album.
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I find it quite fascinating that such success should fall into the lap of a band who make it their career choice to offer up a reflection, albeit a convincing one, of the artistic output of Talking Heads. Bizarre and intermittently wonderful – Franz Ferdinand have made a peculiarly enthralling record, but a little like their influences' punk/funk oddities, how it works remains a mystery.
Gone is the oddly appealing gawky scratchiness of their debut... make way for bouncy synth bass! Not quite dance floor fodder, not quite edgy indie, Tonight is a weird record. It doesn’t quite fit the image – slightly nerdy looking Scottish blokes shouldn’t make music like this. But apparently they do.
The single, 'Ulysses’ is innately catchy and the distorted, crunchy riff that kicks 'Turn It On’ into touch is obvious, but brilliant. The down side? High impact gives way to repetition and after a few listens, the excitement wears thin. 'Live Alone’ doesn’t help either, a song which begs the question 'why?, sounds a bit too much like The Stranglers and irritates like an annoying itch you can’t reach, it ends up suggesting itself as the blueprint for a lot of the songs here and should have just been left alone.
Nevertheless, a very British album of songs about seedy nights in sweaty clubs, Tonight pretty neatly and subversively sums up the denial of a country on the edge without resorting to 'I predict a riot' cliché – quite right, knock that anarchistic ideology on the head and replace it with the vastly more accurate cynicism of 'I’m bored, c’mon, let’s get high'. The stupidly sad irony is that, even if it is social commentary, it’ll probably end up a slogan
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