Matt Hensley
Free Download From Flogging Molly
Macbeth is offering an exclusive FREE download of "Don't Shut 'Em Down", off their latest album Speed Of Darkness out May 27.
CLICK HERE to download "Don't Shut 'Em Down"
Flogging Molly
FLOGGING MOLLY, the legendary 7-piece Celtic punk ensemble, are set to release their forthcoming 5th studio album worldwide in May 2011. Record with producer by Ryan Hewitt (Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Avett Brothers). The new release follows up their acclaimed 2008 release ‘Float’, which debuted at #4 on the US Billboard Top 200 and sold over 2 million copies in the US. The band’s last album also sold over 80,000 copies in the UK and Europe.
To celebrate the new record, the band are offering a blistering first single, ‘Don’t Shut 'Em Down’, as a free download. The song, a rebel rousing commentary on America’s economic downturn, is the perfect representation of the bands' expertly honed sound as well as a reflection of the central themes of the new record.
The bulk of the new album was written in the city of Detroit, original home to Flogging Molly fiddler (and front man Dave King's wife) Bridget Regan, and the city where the couple have resided almost fulltime for the last three years. “Speed Of Darkness” takes a hard-nosed look at the economic collapse in the US and the direct effect it has had on everyday people. The Motor City serves as the album’s muse and a painful example of what has gone wrong in today’s world. To quote King, “It wasn’t the album we set out to write. It became the album we had to write”. This is an album of rebellion and exile, and of struggle and history and the fight, and moves the hard talking, hard playing outfit into the territory of purveyors of the modern American protest song.
“Speed Of Darkness” is a band firing on all cylinders. From the caustic album opener and title track to the itchy grooves of “The Power’s Out”, from the acoustic leanings of “Saints & Sinners” to storytelling of “Oliver Boy (All Of Our Boys)” this is an album bristling with grooves, melody and energy. Though much of the album conveys the worldwide economic angst that was nowhere more intense than in the American city of Detroit, there is actually a strong message of hope, humanity and the resilience of mankind.
To celebrate the new record, the band are offering a blistering first single, ‘Don’t Shut 'Em Down’, as a free download. The song, a rebel rousing commentary on America’s economic downturn, is the perfect representation of the bands' expertly honed sound as well as a reflection of the central themes of the new record.
The album will be released through the bands own new formed Borstal Beat Records. Flogging Molly will be signing other acts to the label.
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