Showing posts with label Thievery Corporation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thievery Corporation. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Politics and Music

I was reading this interview with a member of Thievery Corporation.  I'm not taking issue with anything said in the interview, just with the detail that audience members didn't like the politics in Massive Attack's part of the show.  (They're on tour together.)


This really irks me, because their latest album, Heligoland, is political.  And not in a bad way.  "Atlas Air," for example, is about torture.  "The Flat of the Blade" is about the recent stabbings in South London.  Audience members apparently couldn't see what politics had to do with the music, but if you're listening to the music, you know the answer. 


And, seriously, check the album out.  It's amazing.