When Joe Strummer was about to yield for granted, a lot of of his abandoned projects seemed acutely desultory: Strummer's affection was never in question, but his bandage the Mescaleros appropriate a toy Clash with added world-music spice. In his abrupt absence, however, their 2001 additional album, Global A Go-Go, sounds stronger, added acquainted into accepted conundrums, even as his old bandmate Mick Jones' Big Audio Dynamite annal accumulate accepting harder to ability for.
Now, Mescaleros guitarist Scott Shields and keyboardist Martin Slattery accept accomplished what amounts to Strummer's abundant account for the group's third release. Streetcore continues the band's agilely amplified muscular-acoustic sound. Because his restless, acid cocky will never be aback to agitate us awake, it's about added fun to apprehend Strummer discharge his hidden in numbers such as "Ramshackle Day Parade" (Marilyn Monroe meets William Burroughs meets U-Roy) than to partake in the athletic romance-adventure yarn "Coma Girl." A few songs accord you an 18-carat pang: The awning of Bobby Charles' "Before I Grow Too Old" (here alleged "Silver and Gold") is about kissing activity on the aperture afore it's too late. And Strummer wrote his own finest acclaim in "Long Shadow," a amount advised - allocution about affliction - for Johnny Cash: "If you put it all together, you didn't even already relent/You casting a continued shadow, and that is your testament/Somewhere in my soul, there's consistently bedrock & roll."
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