David Peel - War & Anarchy

For this 1994 album, David Peel returned to his roots, releasing what amounted to an audio newspaper, built on then-recent events such as the Los Angeles riots; his singing style is no more sophisticated than it ever was, but the playing is surprisingly deft and solid, with a suitably jagged punk-influenced guitar part on "Riot in America," and similar flourishes throughout. 

"Riot Rock" is strangely spellbinding in its mix of rage, nostalgia, and travelogue, and displays a crude but compelling honesty in its mix of amateurish vocalizing and solid music-making; and it hardly matters that it's a thematic repeat of the preceding track. One begins here to understand the modern appeal of Peel's work: in the early '70s he was a novelty act, but he was willing to express anger and rage in unbridled terms yet, in a manner better than a lot of more celebrated bands, turns it into something hypnotically compelling with just the right musical trimmings.

Tracklist:

1  Riot In America  5:17

2  Riot Rock  4:34

3  Life Above The Law  6:03

4  Anarchy In The U.S.A.  4:23

5  Who Killed J.F.K.  6:20

6  Hells Of Fire  6:43

7  Stop Aids Forever  4:32

8  No More Nukes  6:05

9  Ground Zero  4:26

10 The Invasion  5:41

11 World War III  6:33

12 Stop The War [ Poem ]  6:34

David Peel - War & Anarchy

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