Rethink Everything is the latest album by Interrobang?! The band Dunstan Bruce formed after Chumbawamba's dissolution. He is joined on the revolutionary frontline by Stephen Griffin, Stephen Gilchrist along with the Revolutionary guards people Caroline Gilchrist, Elizabeth Calfe, Lymon Willis, Molly Vulpyne, James Weber Brown, Harry Hamer, Tamika Mallory and Paranoid Pete. The album was engineered by Stephen Griffin, Stephen Gilchrist and Nick Howiantz at The Bramley Dining rooms and Brixton Hill Studios and mixed by Richard Formby.
The album opens with the statement I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore repeated over and over on the intro to Now Is The Time part manifesto, part call to arms to re-set everything, renew and refresh our democracy and world, while the synths and long tones imply the foreboding sense of urgency for the need for fundamental change of direction.
Outrageous tells us all, we have 5 seconds to say something, go on, make it real and say something Outrageous, even if in this day and age that could be saying all paedophiles must be arrested, or this is an emergency, or down with royalty and patriarchy, take your pick and say something Outrageous now! Whatever you do speak out, now is not the time for silence or violence, but peaceful resistance set to dubby rock that has a fraught sense of danger.
Live favourite My Name Is has Dunstan Bruce looking round and not liking what he sees, while the synthpop backing helps him to try to explain the madness of the 2020's, how do you bring about a revolution, when the revolutionary band you were in is only remembered for the football chant hit they conjured out of nowhere, leaving Dunstan tilting at windmills and scratching his head once more. While asking are you talking to me and the normal argument that phrase provokes.
Unorthodox leads us into the end times with an almost Miami Vice synthpop tune trying to stop all the clocks and turn back time, like he's turning into Cher before our very eyes, like that would save us from the dystopia we have sunk into, drones are circling overhead attacking him for daring to tell the truth, angular post punk guitar shards shine through the synths, in praise of the rarest of politicians one who actually told the truth.
Defiance uses samples from the protest frontlines a hard dancefloor beat and aggressive vocals, questioning how low can we go into the depths of despair, before revolution is a concept taken on by the vast majority of the world's population, we need to break free from the billionaires chains, it's time for action, time to get on with it.
Dilettante is a hip hop chant along anthem to Rethink Everything to find ways to overcome the controls of modern society, bringing about a fairer more egalitarian society, where we all work to create a better world free from pointless wars and starvation, it doesn't matter who starts the revolution, be it a middle aged Dilettante or some young kid, but we need to get on with it, don't just listen to Dunstan ranting do something, like in that 70's kids tv programme Why Don't You Turn Off Your Television Set And Do Something.
Broken Heart has gentle strings for this thought-provoking elegy, wondering how long he has left, if the paradigm shift goes any further than it already has. The synths slowly build to a place where they can drive all the undesirables out, while they take this world apart to the glories of a pulsing synthscape.
Colourless Green Ideas adds Wire like guitar stabs to the synths wondering how his youthful spirit of protest and agitation has given way to a sense of dread and foreboding, that no matter how great a protester you maybe, it's not enough, you might still be having sex while listening to Chomsky and other perversions, while muttering I love you, but you still need to give those Colourless Green ideas some substance.
Not Gonna Lie a statement that these days marks you out as a total rebel, the squelchy synth bass sound accompanies Dunstan's Waldo Jeffers style narration, he isn't going to post himself cross country in the mail, but is going to question everything and how it came to this, gentle backing vocals repeating over and over Not Gonna Lie. While encouraging us to do the things you are most afraid of.
Fabulous is deep dubby hopes for a future worth living in an ever more desperate world, that we can all celebrate by dancing like mad things, who know that love and peace are the real answers. The album closes with the bonus single Manosphere, or it should according to the running order, it does on certain formats, with Dunstan questioning how you could be sucked into the Manosphere, he creates a safe space for anyone recovering from delusions that the Patriarchy isn't patriarchal enough and women really are about to castrate them.
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