MEKONS - ANCIENT AND MODERN (LP)

Mekons Ancient And Modern on LP + Digital Download Card

On Ancient & Modern, the Bloodshot debut for these genre-bending punk icons, the Mekons bring you an album just like albums used to be; cardboard things filled with a cheeky, chunky 78rpm shellac. Just take a look at the cover of Ancient & Modern and you’ll know what we’re talking about!

Let the band take you for a walk down memory lane, to the world as it was just before the First World War to the Edwardian Era, to the Naughty Naughties a hundred years ago, a cozy nostalgic world: cricket on the village green, punting down the river in a striped blazer and boater, off with the hounds, picnic hampers, community singing, mistresses and wives, mysticism, secret societies, dangerous poetry, radical modern art, Freud, national strikes, revolution, anarchists, bombers and British concentration camps.

The Mekons travel back/forward to a world unaware that it’s waiting for the pistol to crack in Sarajevo, plotting their singular course through the digital tsunami of contemporary sounds that blare tinnily from your mobile phone or spin at 78rpm in His Master’s Voice from the horn of your exquisite Gramophone.

Mekons Ancient And Modern Track Listing:

1.  Warm Summer Sun
2.  Space In Your Face
3.  Geeshie
4.  I Fall Asleep
5.  Calling All Demons
6.  Ugly Bethesda
7.  Ancient & Modern
8.  Afar & Forlor