The Family Stand: Moon in Scorpio

The rules are I don’t post anything you can buy or download from a Real Shop. And this is as deleted as a mofo.

‘Ghetto Heaven’ this ain’t. When I first heard this I was expecting ‘Ghetto Heaven’ or ‘Twisted’ and instead got heavy metal gospel with a horn section.

OK, that’s not accurate. But as difficult to categorise as ‘Moon in Scorpio’ is, the following remarks are perfectly true:

• On most of the tracks, the guitars are very, very fucking loud.
• The other tracks are preposterously heavy funk.
• Or heartbreaking epic ballads with weird lyrics.
• Sandra St Victor’s voice should have an oil tanker named after it.
• This is probably not for everyone.
• And is therefore recommended very heartily.

Also. This is often political, occasionally in a rather ungenerous fashion. Sometimes the truth’s just uncomfortable and sometimes it’s OK to defend your urge to the critical, especially when the argument’s put with the kind of articulacy and force on display here. Whatever: the honesty and the anger are honest, and expressed absolutely deliberately, and for as long as you’re listening to ‘Never Be’ and ‘Education of Jamie’, for example, you’re drawing diagrams of molotov cocktails. The prospect of revolution’s exciting. This was 1989/1990, and Bush Sr. was in charge. Yes. He was a shit head.

Check ‘Chackra Love’ and ‘Quiet Desperation’. Genius.

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