No One Knows Nothing Anymore – Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg doesn’t change much over the years. You know basically what you’ll get: some populism, some perfectly drawn emotional portraits, and a nice little bit of humor. I rarely love his records, but I pretty much always like them. And Tooth & Nail is no exception.
It’s among the least aggressively political of his records. Most of these songs dwell in the more rough and tumble world of emotional vulnerability and weary work. That makes the whole project feel more like a halfway point than a completed project, but that’s actually quite a nice place for it to be. It’s a record for asking questions and wondering what it’s all about – and that seems pretty appropriate for the current state of the world.
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