DROPKICK MURPHYS - "For the people"

The Bostonians are in the streets again with another album full of rebellious anthems. As usual, being rebellious in the secure US lets you scream against all the inequalities in the world and the DM adding some Irish flavor creates an explosive amalgam. Highly enjoyable for college boys, leftists, AntiFa and others living on the dole and with their family support , middle class revolutionaries, is an agitating album for a dying Western society that hates itself more than its own enemies. But besides politics and aesthetics, DMs are what we all know a band to start a party and forget to end it. Fueled with whiskey and beer, Celtic passion and punk street attitude they offer  moments of rock n roll swagger and if you're into their previous work, they won't let you down, so prepare for your next protest in your suburban house and listen to DM.

 

 

 

From the revolutionary opener, where banks and bankers, the state and the rich people (we didn't expect anything else) are all responsible for all humanities problems and the poor man's fate, call to arms "Who will stand with us", to the more in your face punk rocker "The big man" the riot in the street feeling is here, like been in London in 76, but with a cocktail Molotov in your hand although it is actually a song dedicated to PENNYWISE  guitarist Fletcher Dragge. "Chesterfields and aftershaves" gets more melodic and Celtic, to cool down the bets.In the same vein the collaboration with Mary and the Wallopers at "Bury the bones" in a true anthemic, Irish way, a marching song. The punk rock feeling returns in "Kids games" at a fast pace, in your face protest song CLASH would have approved. The marching pipes keep up at the following "Sooner kill' em first". A more stripped down, SexPistolesque "Fledgling for the lies" ignites the atmosphere with some great  anti establishment/Media control rhetoric. "Streetlights" is their idea of Springsteen being of Irish origin, another mid tempo, marching ode, "that's never enough".

 

13th album and lucky charm for the US/Irish punk rockers , 'School days" is as always didactic, it has Billy Brag in it a cover of the Ewan MacColl song, a mid tempo,punk folk anthem followed by the Irish fueled "Vultures circle high" with the participation of Al Barr. Closing track "One last goodbye" (Tribute to Shane) a touching Irish farewell song to the great singer of Pogues, Shane MacGowan the album closes as an Irish funeral, bittersweet and drunk, full of memories, feelings and tears. 

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