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PropagandhiPotemkin City LimitsContributor: ValentineI started listening to Potemkin City Limits, and I was surprised. I haven’t listened to Propagandhi in a while, but I remembered them being pop-punk, with a rare taste of ska. Potemkin City Limits is pretty hard. I was confused. I pulled out How to Clean Everything, just to make sure I was thinking of the same band. Honestly, the only song I could remember was “Ska Sucks,” so I thought maybe that was just sticking in my head and that the rest of their stuff was hiding from my memory. No, the rest of it was pretty pop-punk as well. So much for that theory. The only reason I had ever checked out Propagandhi in the first place was because I heard someone from The Weakerthans was formerly in Propagandhi. It was the bass player. I didn’t dislike Propagandhi, but I was moving past my pop-punk phase at that point, and they sounded like everything else I was getting bored with. Potemkin City Limits feels like pop-punk, minus the pop. The vocals are more intense (that is, they are yelled), and there aren’t many harmonies or backups at all. There is a little gang yelling I think -- or at least doubled parts -- but it’s not pretty or poppy. The guitars snarl and have the appropriate amount of fuzz and chunk, when needed, for those low, chunky hardcore parts. Propagandhi avoids the hardcore yells though. Thank goodness. Potemkin City Limits was not what I was expecting when I grabbed it. I was expecting pop-punk, but seeing as how I didn’t really love Propahandhi when they were pop-punk, I can’t call this a bad thing. This record is more aggressive than what I had heard from them, and from the song titles alone, you can tell they are still as political as ever, which is definitely a good thing. Plus, it seems they still think ska sucks, because no trace of it is on this album. And so it goes. You can contact the author at: valentine@agouti.com 930 |
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