If you prefer your politics far left and your music to bleed those politics, then radicalize yourself. Their first release, this was by no means a masterpiece, but it was the best they'd ever produce. It feels almost quaint now, especially their righteous anger - an anger all too common in youth that comes from the right place but never listens. When they sample an interview from NPR, for example, about a company that was taking advantage of the "frictionless economy", they get pissed as all get out at "the man", failing to realize that the original interview was an April Fool's joke and the contemptuous company never existed.It's pissy enough and beat heavy enough to keep you jamming, though.
George Will would never play this.
allmusic:
Love them or hate them, you have to respect Consolidated for having and sticking strongly to political views generally considered unfashionable in the mainstream music world: MTV demeans women, meat is (still) murder, rock is a myth, and America treats its black community with contempt. This album is where it all started for Consolidated, and there's more than a bit of influence-on-the-sleeveitis going on here (you can hear Gil Scott Heron and Last Poets in the lyrics, and Public Enemy both lyrically and musically, but the most overwhelming influence overshadowing the whole affair is Tackhead). It's more musical here than it would be on subsequent releases, which skewed far more heavily toward rhythm and spoken word and away from funky dub-influenced hip-hop. It's still in your face and very leftist, though, so Ayn Rand fans beware.
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