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The Criminal

from SOFT POWER - album by A.J. Holmes

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    From the provocative call to arms of 'The Revolution Will Not be Twitterised' - inspired by the Afro-Brazilian rhythms of Maracatu - to the haunting and dream like 'Ghost Daddy' - with it's classic London narrative in the vein of Ian Dury - to the Soukous influenced pop rock musing on 18th century Cockney superstitions of 'Martyn's Elephant Charm' to the epic Palm-Wine influenced ballad of 'Mein liebster Feind' - sounding like S.E. Rogie wandered into the recording sessions of Big Star's 'Sister Lovers / Third' album. Soft Power is a diverse, yet impressively coherent 2nd album from one of Britain's most promising live acts..

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Wont somebody get me some water please

I feel like I'm needing some air

It's getting a little bit stuffy in here

Feel like I'm being cooked medium rare

And the survey says!

There's a growing lack of empathy

So I want out of my contact

who will represent me and my friends

And get us out of this intact



Constantly told we don't have enough

Then told to expect less

These kind of mixed message

Can only lead to civil unrest

And the survey says!

That everyone you know is a terrorist

Which I find frankly terrifying

But surely no everyone can be the enemy

So someone got to be lying.



The the the the the the the The Criminal!

For the Latin crimen, meaning to judge

which posses the question; which man is truly fit to judge another

and most important who has the biggest

Sausages!

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from SOFT POWER - album, track released July 6, 2015
written and performed by A.J. Holmes and The Hackney Empire

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A.J. Holmes London, UK

A.J. Holmes (aka Vanishing Breed) is a Musician, Recordist, Big fan of Pan-African music, Lover of 20th Century Architecture and Founder of The Hackney Empire (band)

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