In a 2015 interview with Noisey, Propagandhi’s Chris Hannah ranked the six albums the hyper-political Canadian punks had made until that point. The vocalist/guitarist placed Today’s Empires, Tomorrow’s Ashes in second-to-last place, blaming his decision wholly on the sonics of the record. “I just find it sonically not very listenable,” he explained in the piece. “I wish we could remix it, but nobody ever wants to hear a remixed 20 year-old record.” He was wrong.
Today, we’re thrilled to reveal that the record has finally been given the remix it deserves by the talented Jason Livermore from The Blasting Room. It has been remastered from the original reels and remixed along with FOUR bonus tracks. Today’s Empires, Tomorrow’s Ashes drops on November 12th, and is available for pre-order.
In the second half of 1990-ies, we first heard Propagandhi through their albums How To Clean Everything and Less Talk More Rock. Then they went more metallic and lost that skate punk feeling of their first two albums and the lyrics remained ultra political speaking against fascims, multinational corporations, slavery, homophobia…
Fast forward to 2017.and couple of studio albums later. This Summer I went to Slovenia to Punk Rock Holiday which is the best festival in the world that I have ever been in my life and I have been to many, believe me(you can read Punk Rock Holiday festival report here). There I saw Propagandhi live headlining the last day of the festival and they melted my face off and their gig was awesome. They played one song off their new album coming soon and I waited eagerly for the album.
Finally, here it is. The album contains 12 songs of political melodic hardcore punk. They somehow managed to hold on to metallic touch that they had on previous albums but they also have a lot of melodies and that primal hardcore punk energy off the first two records, making it the best Propagandhi record in last ten years. The lyrics are smart, but also in your face tactics recognizable as a punk shock tactic. For me, the best song on this album are the title track and of course Failed Imagineer for which they released a video and last but not least In Flagrante Delicto.
This album has no weak side and no fillers and I listen it on repeat since I got it, so this sure is album of the month September in this zine.
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