CAN it really be two decades since Levellers burst on the scene with their rancorous, blistering album Levelling The Land?
In keeping with the 17th-century rural rebels from whom they took their name, Levellers have always spat bile towards society’s ills and middle age hasn’t softened their vitriol or passion.
Our Forgotten Towns is a bitter lament over the death of our high streets, while Second Life agitates over the dangers of online obsession and Mutiny addresses the futility of war.
Bankers aren’t immune from a bashing either, on We Are All Gunmen. But mainly this is a return to the shin-kicking, frenetic fiddling stomp of Levelling The Land and musically it’s their most mature release.
No Barriers and the single Truth Is sums up the bands re-emergence as well as any on an album that has been hugely anticipated. Thank God, it delivers in spades then.
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