Chumbawamba mix harmonies and acerbic pop music with sound textures from as far afield as Polynesia, Argentina and Cuba on their latest album.
The song On eBay was inspired by those American troops who stood by and watched the looting of treasures from a museum in Baghdad. The Leeds rock politicos use Arabic rhythms to articulate their anger at 21st century American imperialism.
Everything You Know Is Wrong is the band's entertaining ode to misinformation - that curse of the mass media age. Another effective track, Just Desserts, reminds us that humour can be used as a subversive weapon against the rich, the powerful and the pompous... even computer baron Bill Gates cannot avoid a well-aimed custard pie.
Un is both emotive and strangely uplifting.
Updated: 09:35 Thursday, May 20, 2004
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