Levelling The Land - Levellers Reviews

Levelling the Land is the second Levellers album and for me is THE album of the 90s. In fact, it's the soundtrack to my whole life. Every tune on this album is a work of genius in its own right, from the political lyrics - still resonant today (check out the lyrics for Sell Out and Another Man's Cause which are more relevant today than they were ...  Read the complete review

Levelling the Land ~ The Levellers. This the difficult 2nd album from the Brighton based punky, Celtic festival following band. The original vocalist (Alan Miles) left before this album but is credited with co writing one or more songs. This album is interesting in that it seems more 'measured' than the first with a clear desire to get ...  Read the complete review

We are going back a bit with this one. Back to September 1991. Back into the history of one of the biggest bands of their musical genre. What musical genre would that be? Mmm difficult question the Levellers are a very difficult band to pigeonhole. Folk rock, folk punk, both have been used to describe them and in some ways I suppose apt, but ...  Read the complete review

and that's your own! Well this sums up the band and the whole idea behind the Levellers to a tee, this band needs to be listened to again and again............ The band are folkish, rockish, celticish, australianish (well, they do use a didgeridoo!) However, back to the review :-) This album goes from the anthem ...  Read the complete review

I bought this on a whim some years ago when it first came out because I liked the song, "One way of Life" and was quickly surprised and pleased by other songs that keep a traditional and passionate style of music,lyric and melody: Such as;"The Boatman",Far from Home,Another Man's Cause,The Riverflow and Battle of the ...  Read the complete review