Monkey Minds In The Devil’s Time by Steve Mason is an album saturated with politics:
"With a title referring to the Buddhist term for an easily distracted brain, the album features 20 songs: 9 recorded in London with producer Dan Carey and 11 short linking pieces self-produced in Mason’s Fife studio. Monkey Minds In the Devil’s Time is an album that has been shaped by the current global political climate and the lack of dissenting voices in music and popular culture in general. The righteous, undaunted anger at the heart of the album has helped to create Mason’s best record to date."
"Monkey Minds in the Devil’s Time, a sprawling, beautiful, brain-belch of an
album, is an hour-long testament to this.
It works brilliantly as lo-fi movements in music segue into fuller,
fleshed-out songs exemplified by The Old Problem, a haunting spoken word piece
that shuffles into Lie Awake ...
Lonely soars with melancholic-gospel-ennui, Oh My Lord is Sweet Home Alabama on
a Bontempi keyboard, and Fight Them Back – arguably Mason’s finest piece of
song-smithery since Dry the Rain – is air punching, proletariat mobilizing,
insurrection-pop of the highest calibre." (BBC Review)
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Steve Mason - Lonely.
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