Sevendials is the new band from three musical legends that I regularly review in all sorts of other projects, They are Chris Connelly, Big Paul Ferguson and Mark Gemini Thwaite. I have reviewed among others, Chris Connelly's brilliant Birthday Poets album with Monica Queen and his wonderful tribute to Nico Eulogy To Christa, to Big Paul Fergusons continued work with Killing Joke and Mark Gemini Thwaite's playing with Beauty In Chaos, Julian Shah Tayler, the trio are of course known for being in among others Revolting Cocks, The Mission, Mob Research, Ministry and Pete Murphy. The trio are signed to Creation Youth the new label founded by Alan McGhee and Martin 'Youth' Glover.
The album opens with a full-on floor filling goth anthem re-interpretation of Sparks classic The Number Song In Heaven, perfect for some crushing beats and that brilliant chorus to get everyone going, not as celebratory as the original, but we live in darker times.
Wolves are certainly out to get us, with Chris Connelly's vocals coming through with more menace, than his more recent albums about Nico or the Scottish poets, this has a harder edge, coming from a different kind of twisted place, the despair isn't drink or drug related, more in tune with the current malaise.
Knife Without Asking it needs to be done, everyone will be better off if that deed happens, don't ask too many questions, the industrial rock will give you all the cover you need, to commit that Knifing in the back streets of Covent Garden like a twisted Dickensian murderer.
Zodiac Morals with pounding drums, grinding guitars and Morals taken from the fact that your victims are from the wrong astrological sign, make sure that libra gets what's coming to them, find the right scarab bracelet in The Great Frog, make certain that the transition to Capricorn is the most propitious time for this crime, it is written in the stars.
Obssession Feat. Ashley Bad reworks this dancefloor classic into a darker more brooding goth rocker that Ani-Motion managed. This needs to be heard on a huge club system very late at night.
Whispering Wand is the sort of thing you'll find in the Magic shop on Monmouth Street a few yards from Seven Dials, it will help you destroy those lurking in the shadows, threatening you over the industrial rock infesting your mind.
Before You Make Your Distance takes feelings of dread and foreboding for the second chances that won't be granted this time, the line has been crossed and that distance needs to be far greater than before. The odds are this cannot be repaired, we cannot go back to how things were before, this is irreparable.
Corrupted Verse isn't the kind of verses George Mackay Brown wrote to Stella Cartwright in a drunken rage, this is darker, the sort scrawled on a cemetery wall in total desperation, guitars rage around you within the darkness that never leaves you.
Too High To Live the only way down is death, you are that high, this has dark drug despair at it's heart, all the pain of being over the edge, in times so dark you see no way out, the lights have been turned off far too soon, drums are taking you off on that final journey you'll never come back from.
Weathervane Days looks at climate catastrophe from the darkened streets surrounding Seven Dials looking at how that Weathervane heralds the darkest storms and turbulence engulfing us all, this has a more ambience striations of crossfire peeking through the gloom.
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