BBC Radio One Live In Concert - New Model Army

Vengeance: The Independent Story - New Model Army

New Model Army have had a career long enough and musical imagination broad enough to have been all things to all people. Their music covers such scope as to have some appeal to most people. From the full on punk aggression of the early work, to the violin accompanied dark and windswept epics of the late eighties, to the experimental styles of more recent times. This however is where it all began, the album that spawned a musical monster.Even with this, their first album, you can see that there is an uncompromising intelligence to their music. A typically stark charcoal sketch cover greets you as you pick the album up, a bleak image to reflect the stark nature of their ...

The Ghost Of Cain - New Model Army

New Model Army, falling somewhere between the post-punk power and simplicity of the first two albums and the more intricate soundscapes that were to follow. That said it is still New Model Army to the core but you get to see a change in attitudes towards the way songs were to be made, a taste of things to come. Justin Sullivan, songwriter and frontman for the band admitted that during the production of the album Glyn Johns was trying to push him into new territories with his songwriting, an idea that he didn`t quite understand until it was too late to fully explore them. The results of that vision were to come on later albums. So what you have here is the brash and cocky ...

The Ghost Of Cain - New Model Army

Next up is New Model Army s 3rd album The Ghost of Cain which is better than the 2nd album by quite a long distance, this one seems to have a variety in music, lyrics, style and the songs are more complete than the unfulfilling specimens on the previous album. The album blasts out from start to finish with a lot less slower songs than in the previous two albums, particularly good are the well known 51st state (written by Ashley Cartwright of The Shakes) which is catchy and anti-American imperialism whilst remaining quite humorous and Poison Street, an upbeat track with folk elements to it that starts off with a good riff which is matched by an awesome mouth organ solo ...