The Hands That Thieve Review

Please allow me to make a personal commentary on this matter: Fuck yall that’s good. Super ska band Streetlight Manifesto have recently released their new album, The Hands that Thieve. To describe it in simple words is just that it is spectacular.

These guys surely know who to make our ears delight in utter most pleasure. This new record has been on my repeat playlist for a long time now and I am having trouble on letting it out of repeat mode. Composed of 10 beautiful tracks and released on later April this year, this album is built on the same musical line as the previous Somewhere in Between only a bit more intense and smoothly produced. The sounds are in a very skaish proper manner that can label them as a beginning of a new wave, or something else entirely. If it could be so Streetlight have developed a 4^th wave Ska just for themselves and the results have been simply amazing.

Previously scheduled to be released on early 2012, the album was only completed in April 2013. Produced by record label Victory but released by Pentimento the album has been a record breaker in issues by legalities and other problems. Due to be released attached with an acoustic album by Toh Kay and an EP with several tracks to compensate the delay of the release, the album ended up changing record label and cancelling all the attachments due. However controversial the work here shown is breathtaking and the band receives my congratulations with such piece of masterwork.

It is a big problem for me to choose one of the tunes among such lovely tracks, so I am not adding none of them in the expectation that you will hear the full album thoroughly. Share your comments if you please, but my judgement will not change, it is very good.

It's Gonna Get DIRTY REVOLUTION

Straight from the home land of the sheepshaggers, the Dirty Revolution. A Welsh Roots/Reggae/Ska band with a fierce and burning type of music and atmosphere.

Dirty Revolution came together as a band to start and play some Reggae tunes, which later turned to a burning act of steaming tempo and pulsing stage activity. Mixing the Reggae and Roots sound with a pinch of Third Wave Ska, they have combined perfectly well for an underground stage act filing the crowds with sweat and rocksteady moves.

Composed by Reb Elle on the vocals, Stu White on the bass, Morgan Gohar on the guitar, Jim Strickland on the drums and adding lately Leone on the live effects and Tom Pitman taking another guitar on stage. So far they have built two pieces of Discography, their first album called “Before the Fire” and the late “Heat”. Both their albums produced by famous Peter Miles (King Blues, SB6, Random Hand) whom helped the band to build these beautiful products of musical art. This new album “Heat”, has a more polished and elegant songwriting enabling a more natural progression from “Before the Fire” and still emphasizing on the continuation of keep people moving.

Not classified as dirty, their sound can start a beautiful revolution. Play attention to the road, because the Dirty Revolution are coming down through it.