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Year: 2005
Genre: Punk
Covers Included: Front, Back, Booklet, CD
Tracklist:
01 - Sally
02 - I Would Never Wanna Be Young Again
03 - Not a Crime
04 - Immigrant Punk
05 - 60 Revolutions
06 - Avenue B
07 - Dogs Were Barking
08 - Oh No
09 - StartWearing Purple
10 - Think Locally Fuck Globally
11 - Underdog World Strike
12 - Illumination
13 - Santa Marinella
14 - Undestructable
15 - Mishto!
Review:
If you haven't heard of this band, let me enlighten you: Gogol Bordello are currently the most thrilling, exhilerating and uplifting band on the entire planet, bar NONE. Okay, so they don't have a lot of competition...but their hybrid sound of Punk, Ska, Hip-hop and (most importantly) eastern European "Roma" (i.e. Gypsy) music is so good, you'd honestly be a fool not to at least sample it.
This is by far their best album - superbly recorded in glorious analogue by Steve Albini - and one that actually captures much of the celebratory power of their extraordinary live shows. I won't writemore… any more as, frankly, I don't have the extensive vocabulary necessary to wax lyrical about this truly wonderful band. However, in a just world, they'd be superstars - recognised as ground-breaking, unique, Punk auteurs. As it happens, they'll probably not be fully appreciated until they're long gone, a la The Clash.
Make sure you're one of the few who catches them NOW.
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