“Click to listen to Mekons’ ’Geeshie’ Barely famous after 30 years of damning the marketplace, Mekons fear no genre. They all but invented country punk in the mid-Eighties, but dabbled in everything from indie-rock thunder to baffling electronic albums. Ancient & Modern, their first in four years, is meaty and grizzled folk rock. Sally Timms’ near-whisper […]”
“A third of a century into their collaboration, Mekons have wandered so far down their own path that they don't seem to have much in common with anybody else anymore. The ostensible concept behind this new record is drawing parallels between the present day and 100 years ago, a concept that would be entirely opaque without the album's title.”
