Tyranny Is Tyranny - Let It Come From Whom It May CD

Heard from Russell of United Sons Of Toil a while back (yeah still playing catch up on these reviews) turning me onto another project of his in the form of the post-rock monster, Tyranny Is Tyranny. Here's what he hd to say about the band, "Tyranny Is Tyranny is a Madison WI post-noiserock band focusing on dynamics, repetition, and the dismantling of capitalism -- former members of The United Sons Of Toil laying down long-form slabs of bleak dynamics and left-wing outrage. Slather yourself in despair. RIYL: Light Bearer, Isis, and Amphetamine Reptile Records. Tyranny Is Tyranny is the title of the fourth chapter of Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States." "Let It Come From Whom It May" will be released on Cincinnati's Phratry Records on 10/31/2013." Seems like I'm getting a lot of bands out of the Northern Midwest these days that know how to turn up the noise. One of my favorite things about this band is the vocals, that's just me (and really all this is about is me).   There's two vocals going on why higher pitched and the other lower.  They're not crooning, and not that cookie monsters gargling glass mess, but like this smooth blend of the two, gruff intelligible things that lend themselves to the intense lyrical content. Check out the lyrics in the Liner Notes. As for the music, they start this thing off, banging hard, like two cons beating the shit out of each other in a prison yard, towards the middle they get thoughtful, philosophical and then end it with two long angry anthems. My favorite tune falls in that last category... The American Dream Is A Lie Opiate the brutish life To numb the pain, you take a wife They Sell you hope---You break your back You make excuses---They don't look back The dream is dead, it never lived Stillborn from the womb of revolt Stillborn. It's stillborn Don't know how long these guys have been playing together, but it seems like for a long time, very tight and in sync. The whole thing rocks pretty hard, never a dull moment, from beginning to end it reminds me of an important speech. Forgot to mention that cover art, incredible emotion there, describes the band perfectly. If you want a copy and to help give this bad boy a proper vinyl release you can PRE-ORDER. You can also give it a listen and/or pick up a digital copy over at Bandcamp. They also have their own WEBSITE and of course you can get this and all kinds of other killer shit at Phratry Records. http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=554829024/size=medium/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/transparent=true/