The Politics of Envy
- Mark Stewart
- Band Name: Mark Stewart
- Record Label: Future Noise Music
- Release Date: Mar 27, 2012
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Mar 27, 201260It's Envy's quietest moment, a hazy cover of Bowie's Letter To Hermione, which is the real diamond in the rough here. [Apr 2012, p.105]
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Apr 26, 201280Political metaphors abound on this eclectically ramshackle collection. [Mar 2012, p.98]
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Apr 19, 201280However distinguished the guests, though, there's no doubt who the commanding presence is. [May 2012, p.82]
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Mar 27, 201270A belligerent surge of dub-influenced electro-rock and angst-ridden sloganeering.
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Mar 27, 201250Maybe the problem with The Politics of Envy is that these tracks just sounded too good playing back on shiny studio monitors to a roomful of old friends. If he's struggling to say something about the wider world, maybe Stewart should consider a retreat into his own eccentric interior.
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Mar 27, 201280This disc is pure Stewart - urgent, visceral electro-protest for the 21st century. [No. 85, p.59]
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Apr 18, 201270Yes, it's disappointing that Stewart fails to stretch the musical imagination at the same tome, but to roll you eyes at the lack if sophistication or concussive originality is to shun the bigger picture. [Mar 2012, p.60]
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May 29, 201250Too much of The Politics of Envy sounds like the mid-'80s acts that glued British pop back together after bands like the Pop Group smashed it to bits.
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Mar 27, 201260The splendid The Politics of Envy simply ratchets that process up a few notches.
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Mar 27, 201260Stewart remains a firebrand intent on creating skull-splintering sounds and society-skewering words.