Nuovo disco per il leader di THE POP GROUP Mark Stewart
Nuovo disco per il leader di THE POP GROUP Mark Stewart
THE POLITICS OF ENVY - Release Date: 26 Marzo 2012 - Label: Future Noise Music/Self
Il carismatico guru dell’industrial, leader della storica band The Pop Group, torna con un nuovo progetto solista, The Politics Of Envy.
Anticipato da Nothing Is Sacred, in free download dal 2 dicembre al sito www.markstewartmusic.com,
The Politics Of Envy vanta le collaborazioni di artisti noti nel panorama musicale mondiale: Primal Scream, Douglas Hart (bassista dei Jesus And Mary Chain), Daddy G dei Massive Attack, l’innovatore del punk newyorkese Richard Hell, Kenneth Anger, Keith Levene (chitarrista dei Clash e PIL) solo per citarne alcuni.
Registrato tra Berlino, Lisbona, Londra, New York e Vancouver, The Politics Of Envy rappresenta, a detta dello stesso Stewart, il disco di maggior profilo della sua carriera solista: una mente vulcanica con esplosioni post-punk ed industrial, influenzata dalle condizioni di rivolta sociale che l’artista ha inevitabilmente assorbito.
“The reality-subverting punk-and-beyond maverick returns with heavy friends.” - Ian Harrison, Mojo
“Mark Stewart changed everything” - Nick Cave
“Mark is my hero” - Daddy G, Massive Attack
“I didn’t want that song to end ever! It’s crazy to get to play with one of my heroes, I kind of can’t believe it.” - St. Vincent
“Mark Stewart has led the attack on conformist reality. Mark is a constant inspiration and a true Thief of Fire.” - Primal Scream
Never has there been a better time for the return of Mark Stewart.
At the end of 2011, a year of riots, revolutions, occupations and increasing collapse of the global financial system Mark Stewart returns with the limited 7” of Children of the Revolution, perfectly capturing the restless mood on today’s streets worldwide to create the apocalyptic dancehall mutation of T. Rex’s glam classic.
His new album The Politics of Envy is due out 26th March, 2012 through Future Noise Music, and features a stellar cast, including original Clash/PiL guitarist Keith Levene, NYC punk innovator Richard Hell, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Gina Birch of the Raincoats, Slits bassist Tessa Pollitt, Jesus And Mary Chain bassist Douglas Hart, Factory Floor, Daddy G of Massive Attack and all of Primal Scream.
All roads have been leading to this. The Politics of Envy cages, consolidates and hotwires the rampant barrage of elements which have infused Mark Stewart’s work since his first band, The Pop Group blasted the post-punk landscape.
“The whole thing grew out of some art thing I was trying to do with Kenneth Anger, some kind of avatar...it’s passing it on but also paying homage. Anger’s spirit kind of hangs over the whole thing,” explains Mark.
Vanity Kills kicks off the resulting LP with cult film-maker Kenneth Anger on Theremin, plus Richard Hell and Bristol new blood Kahn. Followed by Autonomia, featuring Bobby Gillespie’s frenetic call-and-response chant with Stewart, who wrote the song about Carlo Giuliani, killed at the 2001 G8 demonstrations in Genoa. Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry guests on Gang War, spitting diamonds, with Tessa Pollitt blanketing the dense, heavyweight urban dubscape, before Stewart takes us into the slo-mo coldwave of Codex. Joined by Factory Floor and Youth for Want, Stewart then hits us with the album’s fine example of 21st-century schizoid wall of sound Gustav Says.
Railing against “corporate cocksuckers” and declaring “sanity sucks” on the cool disco electro Baby Bourgeois, we’re then taken into the huge, seething synth-crawl of Method to the Madness, providing one of the album’s atmospheric highlights, gouging beyond industrial or dubstep to create a frightening new take on modern mood music. Daddy G’s unmistakable deep-throat intonations make the perfect garnish for the bleak, heaving whale of a tune, that is Apocalypse Hotel. Being mutual fans of their work, Stewart gives us his version of David Bowie’s Letter to Hermione, now a spookily-orchestrated, beat-less lament. Stewart turns on the light and lets Keith Levene unleash some of his inimitable metal guitar jangle on Stereotype. They are joined by Factory Floor and Gina Birch on this slice of gorgeously-melancholic brilliance, an effortless modern pop classic, which provides the perfect end to this intoxicatingly provocative set of songs.
Continuing an unmatchable track record of anarchic pioneering and seismic influence, Mark Stewart is back with his eighth album and what must be his most high profile project to date, reasserting him as one of the great volcanic creative minds.
Tracklist: 1. Vanity Kills 2. Autonomia 3. Gang War 4. Codex 5. Want 6.Gustav Says 7.Baby Bourgeois 8.Method to the Madness 9. Apocalypse Hotel 10. Letter to Hermione 11. Stereotype
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