Levellers - Levellers

After the amazing Weapon Called the Word and Levelling the Land, it's no surprise that the third self-titled album proved to be a difficult one for the Levellers. However, that's not to say that there aren't some cracking tunes and impassioned instrumentalism. The first half of the album is full of gems which have been re-visited of late during the Leveller's plentiful live gigs. As a whole, it's quite a short album; it starts with the brilliant horn-filled Warning, followed by the brilliant 100 Years of Solitude which is a poetic shopping list of the world's evils to a great tune with plenty of staccato fiddle. The ballad-style The Likes of You and I and Is this Art? ...  Read the complete review

Levellers, The Levellers. This was the Levellers third album. The Levellers, by the time this had been released, had been a band for nearly five years, though their original vocalist left after album number 1, they were certainly getting well known outside of the punky/celtic/festival scene that was their origins. I certainly remember seeing them in London in 1990 and they had built up quite a following of students, squatters and festival goers. This album for me marked a bit of a change in direction and, in my opinion is not as good as the first album 'A Weapon called the Word', or the 2nd album, 'Levelling the Land'. It is almost like they have ...  Read the complete review