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- Label: B Rek
- ASIN: B0002NDOKI
- Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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Let The Tribe Increase includes the full album, both tracks from the Mirror Breaks 7" and a previously unheard demo version of Stay, all professionally remastered. Packaged in a 12-page booklet it contains a band history and the events that surrounded the recording of the album by Kill Your Pet Puppy fanzine editor Alistair Livingston.
About the Artist
In many ways The Mob were the archetypal anarcho punk band. Formed in Yeovil, Somerset in 1979 the band soon spent their time permanently on the road in a convoy of trucks before squatting in Brougham Road, Hackney - a street of houses that accommodated many punk and counter-culture types. Until their demise in 1983 they remained an integral part and a huge influence on the anarcho, traveller and free festival scenes. <P>Their first release was the 1980 Crying Again single on their own All The Madmen label, followed later that year by the Ching cassette. 1981 saw another single the hugely popular and haunting Witch Hunt soon followed by their now legendary Crass single No Doves Fly Here, both taking anarcho punk into new musically unchartered waters. <P>1983 saw the release of their now legendary album Let The Tribe Increase, an album that saw them moving away from the constraints of the punk sound as they continued to push the musical boundaries. This trend continued in their epic single The Mirror Breaks. <P>The Mob's invlovement with the counterculture saw them playing gigs with archetypal hippies Here & Now and Androids of Mu as well as being actively involved in the Persons Unknown and Centro Iberico anarchist centres and the Black Sheep Housing Co-operative. <P>Eventually The Mob dissolved with Joseph Porter joining Zounds before founding Blyth Power.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I've had this sinse it was realeased...how many years ago? I still find the lyrics just as relevant as they were at the time and musicaly it's an incredible work. There's such sincerity in this album it makes me shiver. It's a real shame they departed so early but i suppose this album covers just about everything and there's no point in banging on about the same old things unless your just out to cash in on it - which i don't think the Mob were about.
Along with a handfull of other anarcho-punk bands (zounds, crass, subhumans, rudimentry peni) it's one i have to have. Without it there'd be a big hole in that end of my music collection. I don't know whether to congratulate the Mob or thank them for this album.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I recently replaced my old vinyl record with the CD of "Let the Tribe Increase" and listened to it in the car on the way to work. It moved me in a way few albums do, or have ever done. Highly political, highly social yet very subtle (a major difference from similar bands who would scream their Anarcho Politics at you)the lyrics in places are beautiful and the melodies memorable.
This album needs to be listened to by everyone, it is very uplifting and positive in ways few bands of this genre were able to achieve (subhumans / zounds are two exceptions)
I arrived at work and had to let the cd finish (and to wipe away a tear) before i got out of the car.
This album needs to be listened to by everyone, it is very uplifting and positive in ways few bands of this genre were able to achieve (subhumans / zounds are two exceptions)
I arrived at work and had to let the cd finish (and to wipe away a tear) before i got out of the car.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Quite simply the best in anarcho punk, in my view. I always loved the Mob more than any other band from the 80s. This lp/cd features all their best tracks, with thought provoking lyrix, and is a must have. I remember in the 80s being a crusty hippy punk and this album got me through some tough times, and was my favourite lp of that time, it is simply brilliant. I also still have their demo tape called CHING which was recorded in a basic studio (probably 8 track), it has most the same tracks but is more grungy. What more can i say if you like(d) Crass, Flux of Pink Indians, The SubHumans, The Apostles, Lost Cherrees, etc then this is a very good addition. Also if you like a much more hardcore sound i recommend AntiSect lp In Darkness there is no Choice, they were a heavy influence on many punk, and metal bands that followed on afterwards, and of course i have to mention Rudimentary Peni who have several great lps available (look on amazon). Peace, Love and Light.......NLight
Most Recent Customer Reviews
And they're back
Prompted by discovering they have started to play live again (2011), I went back to this album, which first got me into early goth from the punk scene I loved as a young teenager. Read more
Published 4 months ago by K. Fearon
'Raised in a Prison'
One one the best 'Anarcho' bands by virtue of them not sounding that much like an 'Anarcho band'. The Mob had the advantage of developing seperately from Crass, and although they... Read more
Published on 24 April 2010 by Nick Hydra
Raised in a prison
One one the best 'Anarcho' bands by virtue of them not sounding that much like an 'Anarcho band'. The Mob had the advantage of developing seperately from Crass, and although they... Read more
Published on 24 April 2010 by Nick Hydra
MOB RULE
You can't go through, or get through life without these remarkable pieces of anarcho-punk sentiments. Read more
Published on 18 April 2009 by Del Finch
essential album
What can I say about this album, it is a 'must have', punk nu-metal whatever wouldn't have been the same without this bands influence. Read more
Published on 26 Jun 2005 by P. G. Newman
The seminal album from a band that split too soon
This represents The Mob's only album and is a great shame, as the band became more interested in juggling and unicycling than making music and dispersed, leaving only the dull... Read more
Published on 7 Mar 2001
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