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“Liberation Frequency” – Refused
(Words/music: Refused, available on The Shape of Punk to Come, Epitaph 1998)

“Liberation Frequency” strikes like a coiled snake.  From a distance, it sounds like a harmless track fueled by rim knocks on the snare drum and a thin sounding guitar.  Still, something is awry; the whole thing sounds just a little too tightly wound.  Even when the drummer opens up the beat a little bit, it feels like something holds him back, and the cries of “we want the airwaves back” sound far off.  Only after being lulled in does the snake strike (and strike quickly).  Everything stops except for a faint guitar lick played before the onslaught of full volume guitars, bashed cymbals, and full-throated screams.  As quickly as it arrived, the song returns to the restrained bridge just like a snake waiting for it’s next victim, and even though we know it will happen again, we can’t help but move in a little too close to its space.

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Instantly re-upped.  This album is PHENOMENAL.