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Prodotto da Dennis Bovell, già produttore
dell’album di debutto “Y”, e Hank
Shocklee, produttore dei primi tre album dei Public Enemy, “Honeymoon On Mars” racconta un nuovo
capitolo della band di Mark Stewart e soci, al di là di ogni convenzione
guarda e condividi il video di
“Zipperface”, il primo singolo estratto:
Bovell has produced the
bulk of the sessions while Shocklee took the helm on City Of Eyes, War Inc. and Burn
Your Flag. With “Honeymoon
On Mars” The Pop Group open
another chapter at a time when their iconoclastic contention is needed now more
than ever. It’s a record that finds the band unwaveringly incensed and resolute
in their mutative sense of innovation, as Stewart
elaborates: ‘it’s a stand against
manufactured hate, a hypersonic journey into a dystopian future full of alien
encounters and sci-fi lullabies’.
Recorded and mixed in
various studios in early summer of 2016, working with Bovell and Shocklee the
band realised a dream
twofold collaboration, as Stewart
concludes: “We’ve at last fulfilled a
double fantasy to work with our two favourite sonic assassins, Dennis
‘Blackbeard’ Bovell and Hank Shocklee.
We’re in awe as Dennis, the Captain Kirk of dub is taking us on a hyper
sound voyage into the future, and Hank, as always tears up the rules totally
upholding our faith in the absolute value of noise. We’ve gone completely off the map.”
Talking
about working with The Pop Group,
Shocklee said: "The
Pop Group sound has a level of freedom, fun and creative musicianship in their
recordings that is a special and rare find in today's world. Their
uncompromising spirit to be themselves and not worry about fitting into a
musical box, sets them apart.”
Long-time collaborator
Bovell added: “It’s been a great pleasure to be working with the guys again.
They are truly beyond good and evil.”
Since
reforming for a specially curated ATP festival in 2010 - at the behest of
Simpsons creator Matt Groening - the band have been industrious in their
reactivation. Following an ambitious reissue programme in 2014 with the
re-release of “We Are Time” and an
archival collection of previously unreleased material entitled “Cabinet of Curiosities”, the band
released their first new studio album in 35 years, “Citizen Zombie”, to
critical acclaim in February 2015. “Citizen
Zombie” was produced by long-time admirer Paul Epworth (Lorde, FKA Twigs,
Adele, etc.),
Their
long out of print second studio album, “For
How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?” was reissued earlier this year followed by an official live
bootleg “The Boys Whose Head Exploded”, that came with a bonus DVD of rare
performance footage from the Don Letts Punk Rock Archives.
Finally, they undertook their first proper
worldwide tour around the release of “Citizen Zombie”, a
stretch which included dates in Japan, Australia and America, an acclaimed two
night stint in New York, multiple showcases at the SXSW Music Festival, a seven
night run across the UK culminating in a sold-out gig at The Dome in Tufnell
Park, London, a slot on the John Peel Stage at Glastonbury and memorably
charged performances at Iceland Airwaves, Le Guess Who in Utrecht &
Belgium’s Sonic City festival.
The Pop Group will be performing a rare stint of dates
across Europe this November with dub maestro and producer Dennis
Bovell at the controls.
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