No Rest For The Wicked - New Model Army

No Rest for the Wicked is No Model Army's 2nd studio album and was released the year following their Vengeance album - 1985. In many ways the album follows example of their first with a mixture of upbeat tracks and quieter ones. The album has less of a military form to it though although the vocals still reach out and grab you so that there's no ignoring the words Justin Sullivan speaks. The production on the album is also cleaner and there is a wider variation of styles on the album, tracks like Shot 18 really aren't particularly interesting despite the introduction of mouth organ and may or may not be a harp. Despite each song being lyrically intelligent, ...  Read the complete review