Album Review: The Big Mackoofy - More Songs about Drug's and Socialism (2021)
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The Big Mackoofy – More Songs about Drug’s and
Socialism
Label: selfrelease
Format: Digital
Length: 47:12
Genre: Dub / Psychedelic Disco
Origin: London, England
Jeff
Lucas, Eddie
Blindell, and Tony Joseph are The Mackoofy. If you have not heard
about this exceptional band from London yet, their latest album release “More
Songs about Drug’s and Socialism” is the perfect occasion to rectify this
omission. You may wonder why there is an apostrophe in the album title at a place
where it does not belong – I guess that is basically an intended deed by the
band in order to trigger grammar fetishists. Or maybe, they used the apostrophe
that they omitted in the previous album title “If you fight you wont always win,
but if you don’t fight you will still always lose”.
Nevertheless, both album probably will not need any further explanation since
The Big Mackoofy obviously practise what they preach, and hence – nomen es omen
– here are “More Songs about Drug’s and Socialism”.
The Big
Mackoofy present a dozen of tracks for everyone who has not given up on this
world yet. Their new album deals with the status quo of our planet on which
capitalism, racism, sexism, and injustice are still a part of our everyday
lives. Song titles such as ‘Coked up mediocre posh boys’, ‘Modern Day Warfare’,
‘Penny for your Soul’, or ‘African European Human Being’ speak volumes about
the message that is conveyed on this album. The London-based band calls for a
socialist and antifascist movement to wake up and take action against the
oppressive structures of our contemporary times. But as the album title tells
us, it is not all about politics and revolution, but also about drugs (or
“Drug’s”), as in the track ‘When the Acid kicks in’.
Music-wise,
The Big Mackoofy are far from one might expect when only reading the lines
above. Neither do the three musicians and their guests provide us with
minimalist Anarcho Punk Rock or raging East Coast Hardcore. Instead, “More
Songs about Drug’s and Socialism” is a versatile mix of African Psychedelic
Rock comparable to the glorious Zam Rock era, 1980s Disco soaked with
hypnotizing Psych sounds, and a massive impact by Reggae and Dub especially.
Plenty of comparisons could be drawn here, and probably most of them mirror
each recipient’s own musical socialisation – and thus, I am reminded of The
Clash’s “Sandinista!”, one of my all-time favourite albums.
Music from every post will stay in the MangoRotation playlist for 14 days.
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