Songs of Love and Revolution, by Nocturnal Emissions

Songs of Love and Revolution

by Nocturnal Emissions

	/

Digital Album

Immediate download of 9-track album in your choice of MP3 320, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.

Buy Now $5 USD
Buy Disc
Share / Embed

1.	Power of Love (aka Bring Power To Its Knees) 04:58		download
2.	Song in my Heart 03:24		download
3.	We Are Everywhere 03:10	info	download
4.	Sugar Can't Satisfy 02:29		download
5.	No Sacrifice (In Love and Revolution) 06:53		download
6.	Hit and Run 04:30		download
7.	Never Give Up 04:53		download
8.	Revolution Baby 07:17		download
9.	I Want You To Feel 01:28		download

about

This was a "cusp" record for Nocturnal Emissions, marking the end of a period of more "conventional" songwriting and instrument use. Love and Revolution was the most explicitly "message"-oriented and political. This is a tough record to peg, so maybe trying is besides the point. Nigel Ayers is a pretty smart egg -- check out his Network News for some real quasi-Fortean fun -- so what comes off the disc seems at first glance incredibly doctrinaire and stodgy. "Cops, lawyers and journalists [hey...!] are lying dead all around. There's no one left to judge us. Their iron facade has rusted!" he sings on Power of Love (Bring Power to its Knees), and you get the impression that he's pitching the whole thing so that the people who will take it straight will take it straight and the people who will consider it a tongue-in-cheek piss-take will take it as exactly that. Which is either massively clever or an incredibly pathetic dodge -- I'm still not entirely sure about that. But one thing I do know: put aside the politics, however middle- or no-brow they may be, and what you have here is one extremely neat piece of no-budget sonic rabblerousing. The equipment used on the record is incredibly primitive -- the ramshackle sound makes it all the more lovable, actually -- but everything's used with care and intelligence, and each piece is made to matter. Ayers has said something to the effect that a toy instrument shoved through a massive PA can get better results than a $2,000 synth any day. I guess it all depends on who's doing the shoving, right?

www.thegline.com

credits

released 05 November 1985

license

feeds

feeds for this album, this artist

about

Nocturnal Emissions' Nigel Ayers has continued to work with a strong underground of cult support, avoiding music industry fashions, and following his own creative path he concentrated on creating a strong sense of a wilderness identity through sound.