Thursday, 16 September 2021

Enola Gay - Salt

  


  Just over a year ago I featured the debut single by Belfast post-punk/shoegaze/noise quartet Enola Gay (https://www.facebook.com/enolagaybelfast/). It was a very impressive calling card, a pummelling soundtrack accompanied by well thought out and topical lyrics about racism (https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2020/07/enola-gay-birth-of-nation.html). 

  This year they've continued to impress with a clutch of intelligent, razor sharp tracks, the latest of which I'm posting today. As well as releasing music (and getting plenty of airplay on BBC Radio 6 Music etc), they've been (and will be) busy playing live so check out their Facebook page for gigs. 

  Their latest song is a political treatise dealing with media manipulation and "promised fables." You should lend it your ears https://enolagay1.bandcamp.com/track/salt

  It's called Salt...

 Why’d you slugs vote for the salt
 Brainwashed by the Tory cult
 Chump changed by a different Trump
 Feel the thump now you’ve finally made the jump

 Ya say millennials are all so hysterical
 To whack lipstick on the proverbial
 Didn’t your ma ever say “Son,
 You’ll go blind by staring at The Sun”

 You’ll go blind by staring at The Sun
 You’ll go blind by staring at The Sun
 You’ll go blind by staring at The Sun
 You’ll go blind by staring at The-

 Stop voting for trickle-down economics
 With the next generation left with no food in their stomachs
 Fed nothing but tall tales and promised fables
 With Prince Andrew sitting at the kids table

 No sweat...

 You’ll go blind by staring at The Sun
 You’ll go blind by staring at The Sun
 You’ll go blind by staring at The Sun
 You’ll go blind by staring at The Sun
 You’ll go blind by staring at The Sun
 You’ll go blind by staring at The Sun
 You’ll go blind by staring at The Sun
 You’ll go blind by staring at The Sun


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