Anti-Flag – The People Or the Gun
October 24, 2009
Anti-Flag's most recent release has everything today's active and aware youth wants from music: fast paced beats, insightful and politically aware lyrics, and the face of Punk Rock to launch it. Anti-Flag's "The People Or The Gun", released through Side One Dummy Records, is an exceptionally insightful album that delivers you such thought provoking lyrical content, you'll feel like you're in a philosophy or literature class, Punk Rock edition. While the album maintains enlightening content, Anti-Flag stays true to their angsty sarcastic attitude by being able to manifest everything they have to say into music you can still form a circle pit to.
"The People Or The Gun" is the real deal. The thematic concerns of each song all consist of the same ideas: the government, religion, the economy, and in a nutshell, LIFE. In "The People Or The Gun", the band questions and argues against a lot of ideas which society easily and readily assimilates to. The song, "Sodom, Gomorrah, Washington D.C. (Sheep In Shepherd's Clothing)" includes a line that states, "Allah, Jesus, and Muhammad. Their words have way more in common than the Midwest or the Middle East like to preach. It's a tragedy. It's a strategy." Lines even more assertive and too intimidating for the mainstreams can be found all throughout the album, and with that kind of content provided, how can anyone resist such a force as intriguing as that?
Anti-Flag's "The People Or The Gun" is a powerful album with dilemma after dilemma present to broaden your perspective and opinion. If you're ready to make the judgment yourself, allow the album to guide you through much of what you never thought or felt before. "The People Or The Gun" is everything you were never taught in high school economics and history.
Band MySpace: www.myspace.com/antiflag
Record Label MySpace: www.sideonedummy.com
-Stephanie M.-
Senior staff reporter
Big Wheel Online Magazine
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