Review - Urban Guerrillas "Cloud Above My Head"
independent EP
through 2000 Bugs Productions
Urban Guerrillas are one of the stalwarts on the Sydney music scene, and more power to them!
Through style and/or line-up changes, Ken Stewart and
his band are back with a new independent album "Cloud Above My Head" through
2000 Bugs Productions.
With
a resonance akin to a brash version of early Radiators' work, Ken Stewart
and his Urban Guerrillas have
retained the working-class ethics of the last outing "Made in Australia" but
have broadened their production qualities and honed the style that I remember
from their work on “Just A Lifetime”.
"Cloud Above My Head" is inner-city battler meets suburban/regional rock: sort of where Redgum were headed under John Schumann but
with rock-guitar added. There's an uncut-gem quality about this album that will
probably not see addition in major centres to other-than community radio,
although Valley of Waste will cause programmers to sit up and take more
than the obligatory notice.
Let's
hope this writer's cynicism toward radio (with a Sydney bias, you understand!)
is proved wrong, but we all know the punters will continue to support Urban Guerrillas in the
ensuing dates in support of "Cloud Above My Head" «««