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The beginning was many, many years ago, Van Go says.
Its a terrible mix.
But a couple of tunes that got left off the record are amazing.
All the Clash albums are amazing butCombat Rockis the saddest, the strangest, and the most poetic.
Its like an opium dream.
Van Go sums it up this way: We said, One day!
One day we have to make the B album of this double album that never was.
After years of conflicting schedules, one day turned out to be four days at the top of 2016.
Really what we took fromCRis just the idea that you might be dystopian but really beautiful, says Fletcher.
you might be catchy and have choruses and pop appeal but be weird at the same time.
you could fuse totally disparate things together.
What I like about dub is that the anger that comes through is like GOD IS WATCHING.
It shakes your spirit, it shakes your consciousness from the foundations.
When its done right it makes you super uncomfortable.
That down-chank is a lifestyle.).
Its a feat thats almost hard to imagine a band formed in the era of Auto-Tune pulling off.
Speaking by phone from London, the dread icon doesnt have much time for the bollocks.
This [No Fear] is no-nonsense music that justifies the space it occupies.
Actually, he stops himself.
It could have been a load of shit.
But they picked up on this bass thing thats very much a part of my inner being.
I really felt like its anowversion of what weve been doing back then.
I actually hear Megative as part of an ongoing journey.
Clearly, the band was hitting all the right down-chanks.
Yet something was missing.
Before we found him we were calling him Elijah, says Van Go.
We checked out his stuff online and we were like, Oh my God.
It has to be this guy.
Behind us on 12th Street there was a singer called Willow Wilson.
Hes like, a writers MC … adds Fletcher.
Lot of first takes.
Or as Screechy puts it: I just listen to Tim and venture to tap into his whole vibe.
The concept is there so that makes it easier for me to bring the words.
Doesnt matter if Im black, youre white.
To me, thats solidarity.
I want to ride that fader till the max, the alienation fader.
Otherwise people are not going to hear the alienation.
Or what we do.
But then he pauses.
Or actually, one terrified soup.
Then we can all be unified and angry and scared together.
But its fun to be terrified when youre in this band.
