Flogging Molly, “Within A Mile of Home”
Laddies and lassies! Tip your glasses and be merry! Throw an arm
around your buddy or a fist at your enemy and check out Flogging
Molly’s new collection of high-energy drunk punk.
“Within a Mile of Home” is a fun album full of highs and lows
with lots of anger and expression. With “Home,” there is barely a
sober moment. The album opens up with great political anger on the
song “Screaming at the Wailing Wall” – “I’ll liberate your people’s
fate/ spoke the Burnin’ Bush/ but the song of beasts growl with
oil-soaked teeth.” Molly’s biography is an anthem on the song “The
Seven Deadly Sins,” We’re seven drunken pirates/ we’re the seven
deadly sins. “Home” is an eclectic collection featuring banjos,
fiddles, tin whistles, pipes and mandolins that all contribute to
the band’s originality in a usually pigeonholed punk sound.
Listeners might think that they are from Ireland, but
surprisingly the band hails from Los Angeles. “Whistle in the Wind”
is a great Celtic sing-along, and “Tomorrow Comes a Day Too Soon”
captures the band’s drunk screams and sober tears. Politics appear
again on “The Light of a Fading Star,” Ah when will this war be
over/ and the madness leave the air. One highlight track is the
rainy, somber and sober “The Spoken Wheel,” which confesses the
band’s sadness through the sound of an acoustic guitar. Molly’s
sound can become repetitive, but a cool acoustic song featuring the
gritty vocals of Lucinda Williams remedies that with lyrics
expressing a sort of female liberation. For seven punks raised on
Johnny Cash and the Clash, “Home” is eclectic mix that anyone can
drink to.
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