Faintest Idea – Road To Sedition

Faintest Idea are a Street-Punk band from East Anglia UK, they defiantly rage against the system and give hope to those who have lost hope for a brighter future for them and their punk rock family, but then if you lived in East Anglia wouldn’t you want to rage against something? (although this goes for just about anywhere except maybe living on the moon at the moment).

What they do here in this their latest album though, is to bring all this reflection on authority and the failings of capitalism, then add some self reflection, and a bigger louder brass section that softens it to the ears without losing the message.

‘The Machine Stops’ hits your ears first, the afore mentioned horns leading you softly in towards your impending brain implosion of sound, anger pours out of every corner of this song, yet it still finds time to be melodic and satisfying, a broken capitalist system is said machine.  ‘Kill Them Dead’ comes in next, and follows the theme, with the answer to the last quandary “kill the gods” and believe in ourselves.  A song that hits home much better than if it were screamed at you at 100 miles an hour, this is Faintest Idea’s brilliance, make sure you enjoy your self whilst ripping at the points of authority and wrongs of the minority.

Ska and punk have always worked together as a medium, but when you also add the unapologetic way that this album takes on Politics, personal issues, climate change and iniquality, you get a danceable fest of consciousness and love for fellow humanity coming through loud and clear.

‘Hoods Up Heads Down’ comes in somewhere near halfway through and drops some dub into the mix, it shows just how mad keen this band are at not just sticking to a hard edged sound, then ‘Not Coming Back’ comes straight at you like a freight train, it water no time in telling you how we are dead and buried as a species on a track to worlds end, and we don’t seems to want to lift our heads of the chopping block, this all wrapped in an overcoat of musical eclecticism at at best, ska, rock, dub, punk and every inch of   what it takes to give leave you knowing you’ve just been slammed with the truth!

Having managed somehow to get this album listen to and taken in as much as possible before setting off and committing my uneducated scribblings to type, I was wondering if to could be even possible to fit everything within a compact few paragraphs, and the simple answer is  no I couldn’t , so lets just leave it at this, go buy this album, listen to it, listen to it again and then listen to it over and over, then you might just about get the gist of it.  Its a simple concept of an album, but its also a full on life moment of an album, powerful to the point and full of foot tapping, head nodding angst.

‘The End of “End Of History”  sums up this album perfectly, both in its call to arms and how it musically does it all!

Out Via TNSrecords March 31st

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