I like irrelevant
people. In my experience, they are the sincere ones. And it’s especially
wonderful when irrelevance comes with talent – in that case, it can produce
such albums as Darren Hayman’s Chants For
Socialists.
Because let us be
honest: this album is like a classic Dutch still life in a modern art
gallery. So genuinely irrelevant you could think it was all just a vague joke.
An album about socialism (and I mean real, working-class socialism) in 2015,
with song titles like “May Day 1894”, “All For The Cause”, “The Voice Of Toil”
and “March Of The Workers”. I mean, who in their right mind?..
But sincerity always
wins – when it’s at the heart of somebody’s art. You do not need to be
relevant, you just need to release something as good as this.
