Mark Stewart: The Politics of Envy – review

(Future Noise Music)Mark Stewart's eighth solo record is not an easy listen, and I'm almost certain he would take that as a compliment. More than 30 years after founding seminal post-punk outfit the Pop Group, Stewart remains a fireband intent on creating skull-splintering sounds and society-skewering words. The past year has given him plenty to rail against, and his industrial dubstep is a suitably seismic din for a protest record. Much of it is blistering – and his guests, Lee "Scratch" Perr...

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