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01. Band Of Holy Joy - Lost In The Night
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02. Band Of Holy Joy - The Devil Has A Hold On The Land
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03. Band Of Holy Joy - So Sad
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04. Band Of Holy Joy - Ecstasy Snowbirds
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05. Band Of Holy Joy - Take Heed Calumniators
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06. Band Of Holy Joy - Some People Have Winged Fortune
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07. Band Of Holy Joy - Urban Pagans
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08. Band Of Holy Joy - Electric Pilgrims
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09. Band Of Holy Joy - We Are Sailing To The Island Of Light
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ARTIST
BAND OF HOLY JOY
TITLE
Neon Primitives
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
TINY GLOBAL PRODUCTIONS
CATALOG #
PICI 021CD
PICI 021CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
7/5/2019
Band Of Holy Joy
have gone through many incarnations of musical imagination, inspiration, and output, without straying from their roots in poetic expressions of social observation and critique -- and good tunes! As are their diverse spiritual brethren --
The Mekons
,
Nightingales
,
The Pop Group
--
Johny Brown
and compatriots are best in periods of social upheaval and rule by opportunistic, insipid demagogues, which is why Band Of Holy Joy, like the aforementioned bands, are in the midst of a powerful renaissance. Rarely had an album title inadvertently captured the zeitgeist in as perfectly absurd a manner as the last full-length,
Funambulist We Love You
(PICI 011CD/LP, 2017), and its "hit" (if you will) was the metaphorical "To Leave Or Remain", which caught the shock of the Brexit vote results. What only two years ago was vaguely plaintive consideration in the face of a coming storm has now cemented into rage. In real terms,
Neon Primitives
' stand-out track, "The Devil Has A Hold On The Land", names the very forces of evil which have led to the ills of 2019. Not to diminish the power of the album as a whole... "Lost In The Night"'s palate-cleansing exorcism leads the way to "The Devil Had A Hold On The Land". A surprise cover of
Vincent Gallo
's "So Sad" is the drowsy Sunday morning hangover to "Ecstasy Snowbirds"' woke realization of a failed relationship. "Take Head Calumniators" is a call to arms against deceivers, breaking the introspection of the two previous songs. The second side features four songs of loose optimism performed in a mixture of styles. "Some People Have Winged Fortune" fractures a version of the melody from
Orange Juice
's "Upwards And Onwards" to a message of hope. "Urban Pilgrims", lyrically reminiscent of Band Of Holy Joy's early song craft, is a half-told tale of spiritual renewal in a landscape which would seem antipathetic to any form of rebirth. "Electric Pilgrims" links the process of aging to the nearness of satori. The epic closer "We Are Sailing To The Island Of Light" is a dark sea shanty championing the shambolic assortment of people who offer hope in dark times; a riposte to those forces of evil called out in "The Devil Has A Hold On The Land".
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