Wednesday, July 14, 2010

New Gang of Four album release announced

Post-punk masters Gang of Four, announce release date for recently confirmed new album, Content. October 4th.
"The album will be available on CD, vinyl and as an Ultimate Content Can, which will include the album, new photos, a book version of an art piece by King and Gill on ceramic titles and, to top it off, vials of the band members’ blood."
I gotta say, I'm looking forward to hearing this, considering the band's classic post-punk work on previous albums (their debut album Entertainment! and the Damaged Goods EP, being some of their best releases) and their success at making great songs of and with the various genre's they've explored (punk, reggae, dub, funk, etc.) while keeping the Go4 feel.
If The Slits' Trapped Animal was the definite post-punk album of 2009 from the creative post-punk pioneers themselves (who've also stricken the listeners with their dark sounding, snotty, English, and female-but-not-girly take of reggae and dub-reggae induced punk much likely inspired by the likes of the also English punk rock bands The Clash and The Ruts) then Content will be the definite post-punk album of 2010 that will stand out as more professionally done and as a "big brother" release to all the new, indie & post-punk revival bands' (who seem like copyists in the way that they also use the genre-crossing method but fail at bringing anything original sounding to the scene, scenario, mix, and sound) weak 2010 releases covering up most of the "New Releases" section of rock music websites or the "New Releases" section of your friendly-neighborhood, (if even existent!), record store.
So, I'm not sure if it will be the 'best new rock album of the year' or anything like that, but almost positive it will be a stand-out album from one of the original, first-wave, (i.e. Wire, Public Image Ltd., The Pop Group, and Magazine) and one of the most critically acclaimed post-punk bands, Gang of Four.
http://www.nme.com/news/gang-of-four/52028

The album's leading single "Who Am I?", will be released September 13 this year.

(My first song shared to you readers of my blog. Woo-fuckin-hoooo... Note: Totally just picked it because Go4's news came through by the way and it was necessary to post that and this song; this wouldn't be my opening song if I ever had like a radio-station or anything like that. That would be such a hard fucking choice between which Clash song to play first...)
"5.45" by Gang of Four:



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