Politburo

Politburo have just released their debut album 'Sally & Prinss Revisited'



".encrusted with the dirt of ages, a filthy fur coat adorned with heraldic raiment; a jewel-encrusted hand that nevertheless displays chapped and burnt fingernails…
A sense of ebullient enjoyment emanantes forth. It's almost cruel. One imagines Peter the Great presiding over a particularly sadistic banquet; Boyars out on the razz, running amok, pissing in primitive hearing aids and tearing up copies of Stukeley's Itinerum Curiosum, that sort of thing" Incendiary Magazine (www.inmusic.nl)
The latest Politburo release is the bollocks. It's heavy, and I shouldn't like it, but it's catchy and hasn't been off the TFH stereo. Opener 'The Oldest Empire' is a weird little fella" Time For Heroes Magazine (www.myspace.com/timeforheroesmagazine)
Press:
"Finally, POLITBURO have their own party going on in the basement. After hosting an almost legendary all night 'secret gig' on Saturday that saw the doors jammed up at 2.00am, Police chases down the street and a throat shredding private performance, I didn't think they'd pull this off. But it's the tightest,most cohesive set I've seem them play. Nick Kenyon keeps his vocal to a low level growl and suddenly the songs are more menacing and also more melodic. The guitar, bass and drums are all locked in like Top Gun wingmen and the whole brutal assault unfolds. It seems only fitting that the clock is just striking midnight on a Sunday."
MANCHESTERMUSIC.CO.UK at The Dry Bar, Manchester
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"Politburo have (always) been great …playing the dark heart of rock & roll with deft and edgy skill. They manage to meld the Mancunian black heart expressway of Joy Division with the twisted molten punk of the Dead Kennedys - and that's a pretty damn brilliant combination"
John Robb - Playlouder.com
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"Yeeearse! Manchester's Politburo are A Band, one that offers fresh new hope of something great rising again from the bland canal-side redevelopment that the North's industrial heartland risks becoming if it doesn't watch itself. 'Line of Wealth' throws a mancunian gauntlet down for the rest of the western world to pick up. Dare you challenge the British inheritors of Interpol's slightly subversive but nonetheless beautiful throne? Not unless you're well fucking hard"
Gigwise
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"Life is as simple or as complicated as you care to arrange it. The simple view has these three tunes as three driving and driven tracks that say everything that Miss Black America try to, only with a humour and human touch that makes Politburo vastly more appealing than their daft name and the (soviet) affectations that go with it. The facts are more than enough today. "Line Of Wealth" batters, drives and swaggers a message for those who are listening, those who ain't can dance, meanwhile. "Labour Day" steals Dawn Of The Replicants best jacket and goes for a swank n wank around a burning guitar core and sleazed vox, neat, neat, neat, but "Velocity" is an altogether messier n more organic throat-ripped riff-o-rama and we've got it on LOUD and we've got it on NOW. Oh, hullo officer."
Unpeeled
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"Jagged locked-on staccato space rock nu-wave forward movement. They're from Manchester and you can taste the surging Joy Division freshness. bruising.seething.beautiful.this is so so bleak and good and in need of no more words - just go get it, it's the drug you'll need to help you sleep or see the TV or something like that, whatever the eye sees the hand must take for this is the day Three very very fine tracks, three important tracks."
Organ Magazine
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