Kultur Shock - We Came To Take Your Jobs Away

  by Maarten Schiethart

published: 11 / 11 / 2006

Label: Kool Arrow
Format: CD

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Fourth CD from ever-excellent Seattle-based gypsy punks Kultur Shock, which, while possibly their weakest album, proves nevertheless to be totally involving

On their latest album for the US's truest purveyors of immigrant music, Kool Arrow Records, Kultur Shock again raise their middle finger to Uncle Sam who sometimes appears to have lost the plot in being the number one immigration nation. In case Kultur Shock's sarcasm and cynicism don't filter through, you should rest assured that a certain cultural disorientation always marked the very existence of this specifically multicultural punk band. Oh, how utterly indignant I am, you might argue, yet this is Kultur Shock's weakest album to date and still one I have enjoyed more than many others this year. Even despite the fact that Kultur Shock might be the poor little bastard indie punk band that was built up from musicians from all corners of the world - some members don't even have a background in punk- they have nevertheless walked enough paths all across 'poor little' America, to shock time and time again. This adds to Kultur Shock's overwhelming sound. Kultur Shock had those jobs successfully taken already anyway. Kultur Shock are the band that might have got the Sioux to join in a polka. 'We Came to Take Your Jobs Away' is once again a great party album bearing a message; not Kultur Shock's best but still with plenty of treats.

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