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Track Listings
| 1. Target Practice |
| 2. Burning Fence |
| 3. Superpower |
| 4. Speed Of Light |
| 5. Ease up Caesar |
| 6. Living Under The Radar |
| 7. S.O.C.A |
| 8. Altered Statesmen |
| 9. Bride Of Punkara |
| 10. Stop The Bleeding |
| 11. No Fun (feat. Iggy Pop) |
| 12. S.O.C.A (Feat. Eugene Hutz from Gogol Bordello) |
| 13. Burning Fence (Live at Solidays 2008) |
| 14. Flyover (Live at Solidays 2008) |
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Back round about Asian Dub Foundation's heyday in the late 90s, it became something of a cliché to hail them as the closest the United Kingdom had to a modern-day, multicultural Clash or Sex Pistols, carrying the torch of punk rebellion. In ways this felt a little bit lazy - the idea any music that wore its political beliefs on its sleeve necessarily harked back to 1977 (and all that) felt like conservative thinking in itself: an attempt to bracket a band who set out to smash brackets wherever they found them. It's a little disappointing to report, then, that a decade on from their incendiary breakout album, 1998's Rafi's Revenge, ADF return with an album titled Punkara - a conflation of 'punk' and 'Bhangra' - that sounds like a genre cooked up by a music journalist in his lunch break.
Described by the band as ''a move away from club-oriented sounds'' in favour of a heavier, ska-punk/rap-rock sound, Punkara initially disappoints: frankly it's a bit Limp Bizkit, albeit with faster beats, and prone to lyrics that shun righteous polemic for the sort of clever-clever wordplay much beloved of nu-metal bands (see Altered Statesmen, all about world leaders and their predilection for chemical refreshment).
Still, while the overall shape of Punkara is something less than revolutionary, there's some incendiary fun to be had within. A cover of No Fun with Iggy Pop on vocals could have been a 'Why Bother?' moment, but ADF recreate the track with pounding Asian drums and blasting pipes, and to his credit Iggy doesn't seem to mind one bit. Album highlight, Speed Of Light, meanwhile, melds Bhangra strings, airy female vocals and jump-up drum 'n' bass tempos with a genuinely uplifting effect. Not their best record, but that Asian Dub Foundation are still fighting the fight is a thrill in itself. --Louis Pattison
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Its got a bit of everything, proper head banging punk, grooves, hip hop, ragga, drum n bass. The Iggy Pop tune is a right laugh but best track has to be speed of light. Surreal moment reminds me of my youth. Buy this record you wont regret!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:MP3 Download|Amazon Verified Purchase
I really enjoyed this lively, varied and intelligent album; not a duff track on it, and some really excellent ones like Target Practice and Speed of Light. But the track listing for the MP3 download is wrong; Target Practice is the first track, and the Iggy Pop track is No Fun, not Stop the Bleeding. The CD listing on Amazon is correct, and all the listed tracks are on here, just in a different order, so if you have the patience you can sort it out for yourself and put it right. Myself, I just sat back, shrugged, and listened to some seriously good music.
By IndyCurl
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I've missed ADF - there stuff since Community Music has beena bit of a let down. This is better - with some good tracks that are less contrived in their righteous indignation and more relaxed. Like it used to be.
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