&
present
il leader di THE POP GROUP
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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