Probably my favorite contemporary D-Beat record, released at the height of the War on Terror in 2004. In a genre where it's hard to avoid being contrived, gimmicky, insincere and boring, KEGCHARGE avoids all of those traps and were able to make an authentic, pommeling and genuine sounding record that still fully falls within the limiting parameters of the D-Beat genre. I love the atypical aesthetic of the record art and lyrical approach as well. It comes off as completely earnest and dire, like the War on Terror could have brought about the apocalyptic fall of the entire world unless people mobilized against it.
Which, in a way, it did create an apocalypse for the middle east in the form of ISIS and the Syrian civil war that has completely destabilized the region and created another hopeless situation akin to Afghanistan; where there seems like no foreseeable solution and nothing promised except strife. The US is notorious for intervention, destabilization and the creation of extremism in almost all conflicts we've involved ourselves in, always dividing our support along ethnic or social lines that then radicalize the non-supported group. I can only imagine the long term ramifications of the lip service we've been giving the Kurds in the fight against ISIS, when they are the main support and real world example of democracy in the middle east and the primary group holding their own and beating back ISIS extremists. The US wants them to do our dirty work while we won't actively acknowledge or accept their aspirations for a free and independent Kurdish state while being oppressed across four country borders in Syria, Turkey, Iran and Iraq.
This album is intense. It feels completely genuine in its message and worth the listen.
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