“All is love” was the mantra to emerge from 2018`s outstanding Joy As An Act Of Resistance, a fearless, affirming album that offered a beam of hope and unity in the gathering darkness of Brexit, immigrant scapegoating and punishing austerity. That record`s rallying anthem, Danny Nedelko, was a brilliant, hair-raising defence of British diversity, and the band`s singer Joe Talbot revealed himself as a razor-sharp, intelligent writer, as furious and vital as Joe Strummer, as witty, acerbic and close to the bone as the great, grizzled poet John Cooper Clarke. Meanwhile, the post-hardcore guitar playing of Mark Bowen and Lee Kiernan, and Adam Devonshire`s thrumming basslines were exhilarating...
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