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"MILLENNIA MADNESS (SELECTED NOTES FROM THE LATE 20TH
CENTURY)"
Format: LP/CD
Tracks: P.C. Musical Chairs / Next big Thing / Can't Be Bothered / 2000 And
One / Panic In The Supermarket / Can't Complain / Faster / Phone In
Sick / Refugees Go West / Backlash / Friends / Skin
Citizen Fish's 4th album comes a year after their 3rd (Flinch), during
which the band have done another 131 gigs, including tours of Poland,
Germany, America, and the usual steady flow of home roams, and somehow
still found time to create another fine bunch of songs!
Their unusual musical diversity of (ska-based reggae-flavoured punk
rock) tunes is further enhanced on several tracks by the addition of
trumpets (thanks to Alexxx from Bender) and keyboards, widening thier
sound well beyond any convenient pigeonholes or trend-orientated fish
tanks (it says here)...lyrically, Dick Lucas is at full throttle,
tackling the recent media-engineered "reincarnation" of punk rock ("Next
Big Thing"), the questionable aspects of political correctness ("P.C.
Musical Chairs"), and the fascist elements of "Charitable Politics"
("Refugees Go West") with his vitriolic cynicism and psychological
insights, whilst "2000 and One", "Faster" and "Backlash" (their best
dub-style yet) take snapshots of life in the run-up to the end of the
millennium, as everything gets faster, blurred and crazy.
Once Again CF's combination of upredictability , dancability, and an
overview somewhere between Orwell and what people think about on buses,
has created an album that stands to raise questions about standards,
whilst raising the standard of questions.