Skunk Anansie Black Traffic Rar
AnarchytectureRelease Date: 15 January 20161.Love Someone Else/2. Victim/3.Beauty Is A Curse/4. Death To The Lovers/5. In The Back Room/6.Bullets/7.
That Sinking Feeling/8. Without You/9. Suckers!/10.We Are The Flames/11.
I’ll Let You Down4 years after ‘Black Traffic’, Skunk Anansie came back roaring, at the beginning of 2016. The announcement of their 6 th studio album was one of the reasons we were mentally ‘pushing’ 2015 away.
My first impression of this album was influenced by the conceptual strength of its title‘! A word which encapsulates so many ideas even without lyrics and music.
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For the band,as it has been stated during interviews, the meaning of the word is symbolic and refers to the demanding task of organizing all the different,chaotic often,parts of their lives in such a way so that they can also dedicate themselves to the creation of a new album. As I listened to the album without a pause twice, I realized how this word gradually started to be filled with ideas, dynamism, notes and dare. I could write a whole essay based on the inspired word ‘anarchytecture’ but the fact is that very few groups could have supported such a strong title and even fewer musicians could have attempted to write music for the concept ‘anarchytecture’. Skunk Anansie is a band that has always used strong words, starting from their name which is a reference to both a superhero (Anansi) and a mammal.
The word ‘skunk’ is a slang term for a bad person or even a drug. Dualities and opposite powers seem to fascinate this band as a concept, as one can conclude from almost all of their song titles and their lyrics. I like the way this band channels vindication through rock music following a path that has not been widely explored. With a strong rock feel at its core, the music of Skunk Anansie does not fall short of references to soul and even rap and psychedelic trance music. Skunk Anansie are unapologetic about their disappointment about certain things and the anger that comes with it and have left a strong mark on the rock music scene since the release of their first album in 1994. The titles of some songs tell half of the story and it is actually the live appearances of the band that completes the picture that Skin, Cass, Ace and Mark are sketching.Following the release of the first three politically charged albums, Skunk Anansie disbanded and all the members pursued solo careers before reuniting in 2008.
The lyrics up to that point were making references to very serious social problems that had to do with racial and sexual discrimination not leaving religious stereotypes and Christianity out of the discourse. The albums that followed, ‘Wonderlustre’ and ‘Black Traffic’ marked a change in the subjects of the lyrics since most of the songs referred to the dynamics of personal relationships and the resulting hurt on ego. Very important political events that happened worldwide could not have left the band indifferent so in ‘Black Traffic’ there are hints at those events especially in “This Is Not A Game”.
Skunk Anansie have consistently released albums of unique sonic quality with music that has many levels, many rhythmic outbreaks and causes emotions of different intensities. ‘Anarchytecture’ couldn’t be anything less than all these and more. Here is whyWhen architecture, ‘anarchy’ and music meet“Anarchism does not demand the changing of the labels on the layers, it doesn’t want different people on top, it wants us to clamber out underneath” Colin Ward, ‘Anarchy In Action’Architecture inspired by anarchist, anti-authoritarian ideas, has the potential to open new possibilities of coexistence that could provide a better quality of life for the 99% of the human race on the planet. Having said that, this is not the place to expand on this further especially since Antoni Negri, Colin Ward, Doreen Massey, the Situationists and many more activists around the globe have extensively explored this subject. At the same time, architecture has historically been utilized as a tool in the global political game in order to enforce cultural changes and changes in people’s criteria about what is important and what is qualitatively acceptable in a city’s built environment.
Throughout the years we have witnessed buildings and open spaces, becoming symbols of fights against different political agendas so the role of architecture is very much part of our everyday lives. I am not aware if the reference to architecture in the album’s title was intentional in that sense, maybe this is a good question for the band but if somebody was to put a soundtrack to these architectural/social endeavours then ‘ We are The Flames’ would be the perfect song!“We are the flames we are the fireWe are the price you pay for filling your desires” (lyrics from: “We Are The Flames”)The album starts with a catchy and motivating pop rhythm in ““ whose chorus is delivered in the backdrop of a chill out electric atmosphere almost in contrast with the dynamic of the title.
The guitar’s rhythmic tone aligns with the dynamic of the lyrics making them very direct as if Skin is addressing each one of us personally. The change in the atmosphere at the chorus, is making the words ‘it makes you love someone else’ feel less grave than they actually are, giving them a dreamy, optimistic and positive direction.
A similar sophisticated approach is followed in ““ where up to the first chorus the dynamics of the words are encapsulated in the minimal melody played at the electric guitar, before being transformed to heavier accords just before the second chorus (after 1.45). The tremble at the electric guitar in the chorus (after 1.18), sends electric currents up on my spine each time. The minimal, electric guitar is gradually building up emotion before the chorus.
Vinyl LP pressing. 2012 release, the fifth album from the British Hard Rock band fronted by vocalist Skin. Black Traffic, the band's follow-up to the critically acclaimed 2010 album Wonderlustre, was recorded in London and co-produced by Chris Sheldon (Foo Fighters, Biffy Clyro, Pixies) and mixed by Jeremy Wheatley and Adrian Bushby. 'We've wanted to be charge of our own destiny for many years, the doom & gloom merchants may whine about the music industry but we've seen it as a positive chance to re-invent how we work and take more control over our art form. With our new album Black Traffic and new label we are really excited with the future of skunk, this is my personal favorite as an album, even better than Wonderlustre which spawned some great songs.
We're back and F.#k me we're gonna enjoy every last minute of it!' 'We got back together because we have a strong chemistry,' says Skin of the band's return. 'We're very proud of our past work, but what drives US is the future.' Product Details. Profile Skunk Anansie was formed in 1994 and broke up around 2001.They reunited again in 2009.The Band took their name from the combination of the mammal (skunk) and a spider from Jamaican folk stories (anansie).Line-up:Deborah Anne Dyer AKA Skin): vocals.Richard 'Cass' Lewis: bass.Martin 'Ace' Kent: guitar.Robbie French: drums.Mark Richardson (5): drums ('Stoosh' album and later). Members. Deborah Anne Dyer.
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