New Model Army
Winter
Release Date: Aug 26, 2016
Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
Record label: Ear Music
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Album Review: Winter by New Model Army
Excellent, Based on 3 Critics
Based on rating 4/5
New Model Army's latest album is gloriously uneasy listening for the masses When it comes to passion, NMA don’t do things by halves – what you get are hearts on sleeves, bloody knuckles, politics, poetry and polemics. So it is with Winter, the first full-length follow-up to 2013’s Between Dog And Wolf, which finds Justin Sullivan in fine storytelling mode, his characters battling for survival in undetermined landscapes (Winter) or struggling against the odds in a refugee hell straight off the ten o’clock news (Die Trying). .
Based on rating 4/5
Between Dog And Wolf.
Opinion: Excellent
On the face of it, it seems difficult for a band so fueled by righteous anger to last 35 years without some serious fizzling out. But New Model Army has done it, as awesomely intense now as it was when the West Yorkshire act began. That’s not to say, of course, that Justin Sullivan and his latest band of brothers fire on all cylinders every second in front of amps and mics – NMA abandoned straight electric folk decades ago, after all, and has never shied from musical experimentation.
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