desperate bicycles / overtly political music

In Moll

Active member
seeking some overtly political music which isn't too aggressive or masculinized or cringe-worthy or too earnest and heavy-handed. Not interested in any one voice /one guitar kinda things. Any recommendations? Desperate Bicycles kinda embody those elements for me...anything similar? I esp. like their concentation on civil liberties.

As an aside: in such heated political times, why is western music so lacking in political content? Or am I not listening in the right places?
 
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In Moll

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nonightsweats said:
i find most overtly political songs to be cringeworthy but, sonically at least, this heat's deceit is the winner here.

...agree there. Though I'm looking for something a bit more obvious -- i.e. succinct statements like "it was easy, it was cheap, go and do it." Or tunes like the Desperate Bicycles "Advice On Arrest" which doesn't decry anything in particular but just makes a practical statement on civil liberties.
 

Leo

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Does the Crass crew/label count here? And remember the Redskins, who went on about kicking over the statues or something?

Current stuff...hmm. D. Banhart had that one mopey "We don't want no war" track on his last LP, and then there's Neil Young latest. Believe it or not, lots of middle America seemed to view Green Day's last megaseller CD as protest music.
 

AidenAnchoress

innarested
Asian Dub Foundation are a quality politicised band. saw them supporting radiohead last year and was blown away. Rock guitar meets dance beats meets garage MC-ing with added tabla.
 
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