Neneh Cherry "Broken Politics" CD (2018)

Details: Neneh Cherry's "Broken Politics," released in 2018 on Smalltown Supersound x The Cherry Bear Organisation Ltd. (Neneh's label). Issued in a 6-panel digipak, new stock, sealed.

Description: "Following the release of her first earth-quaking single, counter-culture pop icon Neneh Cherry announces her fifth solo album Broken Politics, produced in its entirety by Four Tet.

Continuing her blurring and conflation of the personal and the political, the second single Shot Gun Shack tackles the link between violence and deprivation using poetic logic. The track deals with the ever-present and always-global issue of gun violence in society. The track's name was the result of inspiration that sprung from a half-remembered conversation Cherry had at the funeral of late jazz great Ornette Coleman.

Broken Politics pointedly asks the question; how do we conduct ourselves in extraordinary times? In an era where the signal-to-noise ratio is more uneven than ever, what are the measures we must take to retain and remember our own personhood? It searches for answers, patiently and with great care, and with a fearlessness to acknowledge that sometimes the answers don't even exist. It’s a record that’s equal parts angry, thoughtful, melancholy, and emboldening, as Cherry and her collaborators continue to expand her ever-widening sonic palette to craft truly singular and potent music."

Grade: M (new stock)

CD TRACK LISTING:

1. Fallen Leaves
2. Kong
3. Poem Daddy (Interlude)
4. Synchronised Devotion 
5. Deep Vein Thrombosis
6. Faster Than The Truth
7. Natural Skin Deep
8. Shot Gun Shack
9. Black Monday
10. Cheap Breakfast Special (Interlude)
11. Slow Release
12. Soldier