New Model Army - Unbroken - 2024 - WEB FLAC 16BITS 44 1KHZ-EICHBAUM

         

 





  New Model Army - Unbroken      



       



 





 Artist: New Model Army

Title: Unbroken

Year Of Release: 2024

Label: earMUSIC

Genre: Alternative Rock, Post-Punk  

 



 





01.First Summer After 04:13

02.Language 03:45

03.Reload 03:54

04.I Did Nothing Wrong 04:55

05.Cold Wind 05:27

06.Coming Or Going 03:35

07.If I Am Still Me 04:19

08.Legend 04:20

09.Do You Really Want To Go There 03:32

10.Idumea 03:50

11.Deserters 03:25    





 







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  There are few bands that have been around for over 40 years that can not only claim a solid consistency, but also be enjoying not just a renaissance of their music, but arguably their peak. New Model Army s last three albums (Between Dog and Wolf (2013), Winter (2016) and From Here (2019)) have been stunning examples of how to write modern rock songs whilst retaining their own distinctive sound. It could be argued that this is down to one man s vision, Justin Sullivan being the main songwriter and only constant member of NMA (not forgetting Joolz who has been a constant source of artwork and support), but NMA have always been a band and one gets the feeling that Sullivan receives fresh inspiration from each incarnation. What also helps their longevity and importance is the sheer poetic eye Sullivan has. Are many rock lyrics more

moving than 1989 s Green and Grey, and it continues on this album with the observation on Deserters: Still these mornings I wake up singing/even if I can t remember why . It s both the artists curse and blessing.



Whilst the previous three albums have been based around a central, if loose, theme, Unbroken is more disparate. This is likely due to the writing and recording taking place over a long period of time, with the process interrupted by both the delayed 40th Anniversary shows and the recent Sinfonia live orchestral project. The sound is heavier than recent releases, with an emphasis on power, but the subtlety is still there and the sound is more to do with the way the songs have been mixed by Tchad Blake. The bass on this album is particularly raucous, with a growl like a wounded tiger.



Opener, First Summer After, starts with a solo guitar buzzing like a communication flowing, stuttering down the lines, before the so familiar voice and the beating, urgent drums start us on a new album journey. The song has a feel of something passing, a land lost it s way, a searching, wistful song. There are other songs with undercurrents of

something not quite tangible, like Cold Wind, with its premonition of gathering evil, and Language which, whilst extolling the virtue of words, is imbued with loss and the belief that the chances have now run dry.



There has always been a folk and tribal musical leaning of the band. I Did Nothing wrong is folk rock with an electro bass beat which gives the song, about white collar crime where the criminals have no blood on their hands but there is blood from the consequences, a big, heavy feel. And with the Royal Mail scandal in the news, it s even more prescient. There is a tribal beat on If I Am Still me, which conjures a ceremony to investigate the core of self. Sullivan sings: I have to see/If I am still me. You can imagine him going out into the wilderness to test himself. Idumea is a beautiful folk/gospel song that invokes old protest songs, of the gathering of oppressed peoples, all holding onto the belief that all things will pass, by and by.



Whilst Idumea expresses Sullivan s anger in a hopeful way, he can also still be relied upon to spit out his anger with venom. Reload opens with his lone vocal declaring: If I have to see another fucking union jack/flying on the orders of the government/I m gonna be sick. It s a song about money, and how money corrupts, with the pithy

observation that it s only debt that trickles down.



The album closes with Deserters, which sounds like a storm at the end of a heatwave, with moments of power and reflection. It sums up the album well: power and reflection.



Unbroken is eleven more songs from a band still on top form. New Model Army continue to create music that is passionate and poignant from everything they

see around them just as a poet can wite about a post box and imbue it with something that we have never seen before, causing us to view the everyday in a new way.



What New Model Army create is a pagan spirituality, which is in touch with this land s past, present and future. Long may they continue their journey.