Photo: Paul Bachmann
Gang Of Four have unveiled an official video for their Change The Locks single.
It’s taken from the band’s new album Happy Now, which is out tomorrow and which Live4ever said is the record ‘Andy Gill wanted to make, when he wanted to make it, how he wanted to make it‘:
“It is possible here, given Happy Now’s synthesis leans ever more heavily towards production than live instrumentation, of falling victim to conductor syndrome, where the players are relegated in the eyes of the public into little more than puppets. This isn’t a fit here; despite an obvious lack of dependence on the guitar-bass-drums formula, the album’s contours are still clearly felt, Paper Thin sounding like it could’ve been recorded in 1983 or 2013 but without the lack of depth that solo projects by any other name usually suffer from.”
“Few bands have tried to pull off what Gang Of Four are attempting to do, in keeping their loyalists happy whilst at the same time essentially steering a course directly away from them.”
