Gang Of Four: Content

Punk-funk awkward squad on vital form.

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Despite being one of the least likely bands to hit the comeback trail,

As ever, the key to the Gang’s renewed potency lies in the combination of Andy Gill’s ageless, percussive guitar playing and vocalist Jon King’s poetic rhetoric, and the first few seconds of fidgeting agit-funk opener She Said should be enough to delight die-hards craving the electrified thump of the band’s first three albums.

In fact, the pulsing, prickly likes of Never Pay For The Farm and Do As I Say amount to an inspired combination of past and present; the quartet’s trademark sound benefiting from contemporary sonic sparkle and just a hint of knowing restraint. For once, a reunion with bite.

Dom Lawson
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Dom Lawson began his inauspicious career as a music journalist in 1999. He wrote for Kerrang! for seven years, before moving to Metal Hammer and Prog Magazine in 2007. His primary interests are heavy metal, progressive rock, coffee, snooker and despair. He is politically homeless and has an excellent beard.