As we reach the end of the year, there are a few albums I need to highlight that either came to me too late to make my end of year lists or I just overlooked earlier for some reason or another.
Despite what their name tells you, Glasgow based band, The Musicians of Bremen, ended the year by releasing the second part of their double header debut album Resilience, having released part one, Intolerance, earlier in the year. Like the Brothers Grimm tale from whence they get their name, their wish would be to rid us of al the thieves and liars, particularly the ones that run the country/world…
The two album title could be buzzwords for recent years as we see society split even further and intolerances increasing from both side of the divide, some of these intolerances entirely despicable created through the rise of the right (a particular visceral response to Brexit at the end of the album “We Voted NO” leaving you in no doubt where the band stands) and incompetent lying governments on both sides of the Atlantic while other intolerances totally understandable as the rest of us rail against hate, racism, homophobia, xenophobia and bigotry.… Read the rest
