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PROPAGANDHI - "Failed States" LP
Picked this album up when the band played St. Louis the weekend
before the election and finally got the time to sit down and take it all in. On Failed States Propagandhi unleash a
powerful statement of guitar driven heaviness that finds them drawing heavily from thrash metal and experimental sounds to
create songs that manage to walk a fine line between melody and unrelenting ferocity. Full of hard wall of overdrive
guitars and a fair share of guitar solos, the band takes on the forces that control our lives mentioning such topics as the
prevalence of war in history, alienation, the oppression of punks in Aceh Indonesia, interpersonal conflict, and more in matters
that connect the personal with the political. The band's more metal leanings have been sharpened here, thus furthering
their hybrid of punk/HC and thrash into an unstoppable sonic force. This band has come along way in the last 20 years
but still reamins one of the guiding lights for socially and politically aware punk. Get this album - if you haven't
done so already. (BOONE)
(Epitaph Records)
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