From the Mekons' 2019 Bloodshot/Sin Records album 'Deserted': https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/deserted
First proper album in 8 years from the long-running, genre-hopping, impossible-to-kill British folk-punk collective.
Emboldened by a sold-out tour and a surge of interest in the States after the release of the documentary 'Revenge of the Mekons,' the band retreated to the fringes of Joshua Tree National Park and popular culture to record their new album 'Deserted,' folk music made by folks who are pissed and disillusioned, lost and longing to be found, but only on their terms.
The genre-defying Mekons formed in Leeds, England in 1977, born form the emerging British punk scene. They progressed from socialist art students with no musical skills to the prolific, raucous progeny of Hank Williams. This current classic line-up has remained intact since the mid-1980s. Theirs is an improbable history – a surprising and influential embrace of folk and country music; with occasional forays into the art world.
From the Mekons' 2019 Bloodshot/Sin Records album 'Deserted': https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/deserted
ReplyDeleteFirst proper album in 8 years from the long-running, genre-hopping, impossible-to-kill British folk-punk collective.
Emboldened by a sold-out tour and a surge of interest in the States after the release of the documentary 'Revenge of the Mekons,' the band retreated to the fringes of Joshua Tree National Park and popular culture to record their new album 'Deserted,' folk music made by folks who are pissed and disillusioned, lost and longing to be found, but only on their terms.
The genre-defying Mekons formed in Leeds, England in 1977, born form the emerging British punk scene. They progressed from socialist art students with no musical skills to the prolific, raucous progeny of Hank Williams. This current classic line-up has remained intact since the mid-1980s. Theirs is an improbable history – a surprising and influential embrace of folk and country music; with occasional forays into the art world.
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