01. We Are The Melting Pot [2'29]
02. The Thing Is... [2'50]
03. It's Time To Wake Up, England [3'00]
04. Criminal Politics [2'04]
05. We Will Destroy The White House (Brick By Brick) [2'30]
06. Kill From Within [2'19]
07. Freedom Of Speech? [2'22]
08. Death On The Outskirts Of London [3'01]
09. House Arrest/Idiot Rule [4'56]
10. Parliament Means Zoo In Latin [2'01]
11. It's Raining Ash (Merry Christmas George Bush) [1'34]
Drawing on the youthful anger of The Jam, 'The Thing Is...' by Breaking News is aggressive Indie-Punk with a political edge much like fellow Coventry-based indie ruffians The Enemy. However, where Breaking News fail to match up to The Jam, and even The Enemy, is in the songwriting. These are not songs, they're merely interchangeable and derivative Indie Rock instrumentals overlapped with incredibly generic and horribly misguided spoken word monologues from frontman Leon Malone. Take the unintentionally hilariously titled 'Parliament Means Zoo In Latin' (it doesn't) for example, "When I was young I was promised the world/snatched from my hand from the fascists/we are not the infidels, and we will overcome/terrorist mind frames hellbent on reform/socialist potions for the capitalist disease, hunt down the man, we will kill the man" - surely the most hollow and meaningless piece of empty rhetoric ever committed to tape? Then again, what can be expected from a band that lists both Che Guivera and Neil Morrissey in its thank you section?
0.5/5
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