http://deserted.bandcamp.com/album/deserted

Ta legendarna grupa z Leeds pisała historię muzyki współczesnej od 40 lat jako radykalni innowatorzy muzyki punkowej i muzyki korzeni. Ich nowy album został nagrany na pustynnym terenie Joshua Tree w Kalifornii.

Powrót jednego z najważniejszych zespołów rock and rolla na świecie.

Kiedy punk eksplodował w Londynie, szybko i zuchwale i pełen furii, w Leeds pojawili się Mekons. Single takie jak „Where Were You” i „Never Been in a Riot” (oba z 1978 roku) były nawet dla sceny punkowej czymś nowym i świeżym. Post-punkiem, zanim powstała konieczność stosowania słowa "post".

“There’s never been a band quite like the Mekons. Unmarred by breakups or breakouts, undefined by genre, geography, or ego-trips…no rock outfit’s ever been this committed to behaving like a true band, with all the equanimity and familial bonding implied.” – Rolling Stone

This legendary group from Leeds, have written contemporary music history for the last 40 years as radical innovators of both first generation punk and insurgent roots music. Their new album was recorded in the desert environs of Joshua Tree, California and is drenched with widescreen, barbed-wire atmosphere and hard-earned (but ever amused) defiance.

The return of one of the planet’s most essential rock & roll bands.

When punk exploded in London, fast and brash and full of fury, up in Leeds the Mekons came blinking into the light at a much slower pace. Singles like “Where Were You” and “Never Been in a Riot” (both from1978) fractured punk’s outlaw myth with the ordinariness of real life. During the next decade, as country singers donned cowboy hats and slid into the stadiums, the Mekons celebrated the music’s rough, raw beginnings and tender hearts with the Fear and Whiskey album (1985) and went on to demolish rock narratives with Mekons Rock’.......
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