Raise your hand if you only know who New Model Army are because of Anacrusis' cover of their song “I Love the World”. Now raise your hand if you don't know who either of those bands are. If you are in that boat, I'll save Anacrusis for another time, but we'll hit up New Model Army now. New Model Army have always reminded me of a nice hybrid of Wish-era The Cure and the self titled 1980 Killing Joke release. Ever since New Model Army started in 1984, the band have delivered rhythmic protest anthems that are driven by cyclical bass guitar rhythms and folky, almost spoken-word, vocals. The problem is they kind of lost their way somewhere around the late 90s. That's what makes From Here so special, because the band have come from out of nowhere with their best release since Thunder and Consolation in 1989. The bass guitar-driven songs are back and better than ever, and the accompanying music is the best it's been in a decade or more. The vocals are more urgent and memorable than they've been in a long time, too.
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