SMASH THE SYSTEM BY LUKE HAINES
England's greatest living surrealist abandons the concept album idea he's been peddling for so long and moves to what some people would describe as 'song-based' for the new LP Smash The System.
Following on from such critically acclaimed works as ‘Nine and a half psychedelic meditations on British wrestling from the late 1970s and early ’80s’ (2010) ‘New York In The ’70s’ (2014) and last years electronic ‘British Nuclear Bunkers’, Smash The System urges us to "break out the psychic ammo". And never have systems needed smashing quite as much as now.
It's probably best left to Haines himself to talk you through it. "For ‘Smash The System’ think ‘Hunky Dory’ or Sabbath’s eponymous debut played on pixiephones and Moog, Graham Bond Organisation, (if they’d been any good) Haines’ own 1996 classic ‘Baader Meinhof’, Or Sunn 0))) at the school disco with tunes. As you have no doubt guessed, ‘Smash The System' is a Ritual Magick agit prop call to arms. So, sisters and brothers break out the psychic ammo and call the New Gods: Eric Bristow, Giant Haystacks, and Brian Jacks; we petition you with prayer. We the under-signed smear ourselves with the menstrual blood of Ulrike Meinhof and raise our horns to the mythical Black Bunny. Praise to the Power Of The Witch. Death to the middle brow. Realise self actualisation now! Vince Taylor did not die! Exalt the vagina and always keep a little Marc in your heart." You dig?
Smash The System is out now on Cherry Red. Get in touch with the Haines universe @LukeHaines_News