The Pop GroupThirty-five years: that’s how long it’s been since The Pop Group’s last album, an age so distant I’m not going to crank out the usual bad comedy comparisons; you can Wikipedia “1980” yourselves.
Not as dangerously bleeding-edge as once they were, their third album is still one of the most politically scathing releases of recent times. Musically it’s all over the place (in both senses), unpredictably veering from slick funk workouts (Mad Truth) to nihilistic loathing (the title track) to the just plain silly (St Outrageous).
