- Genre: 'Hip-Hop'
- Release Date: '21st March 2015'
Our Rating:
Politics and satire go hand in hand, and the current crop of smarmy suits who claim to be working with our best interests at heart have provided abundant material for comedians and social commentators. The music world seems to be rather less willing to engage in either politics or satire, and whether it’s down to apathy or a fear of being shunned by radio playlist makers, the silence is conspicuous (Sleaford Mods excepted, of course).
With the general election just weeks away, Fear of a Camp Planet are filling that silence, and then some. ‘F.A.’ features Liverpudlian poet Gerry Potter telling it like it is and in no uncertain terms over an old-school hip-hop electro backing, liberally peppered with looped samples of David Cameron. ‘We’re all in this together,’ says the PM wagging a finger. Indeed we are, Potter observes, as he lists the ways we’ve all been left with ‘fuck all’: ‘Fuck all takes your jobs / Your libraries / Your hospitals / Your pubs / Bulldozes your youth clubs / Labels you lazy and nothing...’ Swiping at big money corporations and capitalist culture, as well as the BBC and referencing the London riots, ‘F.A.’ packs a lot of vitriol into a fraction under four minutes.
Bold, angry, and with a groove you can dig, Fear of a Camp Planet get my vote.
