JUST when you thought it was safe to write The Levellers off as politically and musical spent, the anarcho-syndicalist institution seems to have gone through something of a rebirth.
A long way from the commercial high watermark of Levelling the Land, Letters from the Underground finds them cutting an angry swathe through the sappy sounds of big time social commentators to deliver an earnest, committed slice of punchy polemic. Not for them the commercial considerations of a major record label that would baulk at a tune as incendiary as Burn America Burn; while Fight Or Flight dissects the care system and Behold the Pale Rider takes a look at what's changed since July's bombings.
Gone is the dogma of yore, replaced by a reaction against apathy. More power to 'em.
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