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Beats: Future of The Left – The Plot Against Common Sense Review

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I want to start out by saying that I feel embarrassed that I hadn’t even heard of Future of the Left before I got a press release with a link to “ I am the least ofyour problems ”. I am literally ashamed of myself.   I’m glad I listened though as I quickly fell in love with them purely for that song. When I got sent the album stream I was unusually bemused by a note in the email “I’ve attached the closest thing we have to a bio – this band does things a little differently, and so we do not have a traditional one.” – I knew the album was gonna be a bit special. Literally all I know about them is that they’re from Wales and apparently this album was originally supposed to be a Broadyway musical based on the phone hacking scandal but it was shelved due to budgetary reasons. So, for the album. Musically, it’s very bass-centric alt/punk-rock. The bass guitars are literally groundshaking. There are other instruments, obviously, but this album seems to literal...