Democracy (album)

See also: Democracy

Democracy is an album of the group of Post-punk and industrial Metal Killing Joke, left in 1996.

More alleviated than the preceding opus, Pandemonium , Democracy offer to Jaz Coleman, the singer of the group, an occasion to be expressed on one of its topics of predilection: the corruption of the political system in the great Western democracies at the end of the 20th century. Anti imperialist convinced, it turns the demagogy into ridiculous and sticks, throughout the texts of this opus, to reaffirm the idea of individual freedom. It appears, throughout the respective careers of Killing Joke and Coleman as a composer-songwriter, that this last privileges a set of themes in charge of symbols: Millénarisme, démoniaque possession and spirituality in general. It is not deprived any in this album, mainly with Pilgrimage and Medecine Wheel .

The guiding idea of the album, developed more particularly in the texts of Democracy and Another Bloody Election , is that of impossibility of reforming the system by making confidence with the political personalities. According to Coleman, whatever the ballot paper, the result will be the same one, because of the disturbing elements which are the money-King and the capacity. One will note, in the words of the first piece, several allusions to the Franc-Maçonnerie and the secret societies in general, like here:

Funny handshakes , insider dealing

And in arcadia, arcadia ego .

Musicalement, the pieces are built on a recurring model: initially an introduction to the acoustic guitar then, after some measurements, arrival of the sound Post-punk even more usual with Killing Joke. Democracy is the only album of the group on which Geordie Walker coward his famous Gibson gilded to play the rhythmic parts on a Guitare folk.

Coleman finds, on certain pieces, stamp of a soft and calm voice which it seemed to have given up in the middle of the Années 1980, for suddenly passing to the style much more brutal which became its vocal trademark.

The album was well accommodated by criticism at the time, like good diffused on the radio waves on the two sides of the Atlantic. This being, the sauce takes less although for the preceding album, mainly because of this return to a state of calm which could disappoint certain fans that the installed capacity of Pandemonium had filled with enthusiasm. It will be necessary to wait seven years to see leaving new Killing Joke.

list pieces

  1. Savage Freedom

  2. Democracy
  3. Prozac People
  4. Lanterns
  5. Aeon
  6. Pilgrimage
  7. Intellect
  8. Medicine Wheel
  9. Absent Friends
  10. Another Bloody Election

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