All looking old these guys now but I still love them.
Of all these pre-Millenial outer-Wu albums there is a hierarchy, at least an aesthetic one.
I think, of course, Heavy Mental is a masterpiece, one of the greatest albums ever made. The production is mostly good going on great, but KP shapes it, dominates it, makes it a classic by sheer force of will, dexterity, imagination, and genius. Nothing falls out.
Sunz of Man had a superb collection of talent, but their brilliance is spread across a scatter of official and unofficial albums, with beef and bad decisions underming their impact.
Killarmy were on the face of it far less talented. Even now I find it hard to distinguish their various members. YET. ‘Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars’ is a lost classic on a par with ‘Heavy Mental’.
The production is immaculate: it’s 4th Disciple’s masterpiece.
The lyrics are a collective swarm of fascistic inventictive, out of control, absurd, provocative, horrible, powerful. These days sounds more prescient than ever. Razor blades stashed inside a bible...I cut off the heads of those who worship Adam and Eve etc
If you go back it is these two intense albums. Heavy Mental and Quiet Wars. (But also the second Killarmy album, Sunz ‘The First Testament’ compilation and that fabled lost Royal Fam album deserve a mention)....