Live breaks outfit Fold simultaneously commemorate two inspirational men and tackle two of the man’s twin tools of fear and control – on the breaks ‘n dead activist – er – powered Oil-Powered Machine and Detroit Red. The former borrows the words of the late Michael Ruppert and puts the boot into the feral self-interest of the petrochemical industrial complex by revealing, over an increasingly urgent guitar-led beat, how much hydrocarbon energy it takes to make every calorie you eat. The latter is just as tense but more overtly funky and features the words of the late Malcom X who sounds a bit pissed off. Unless you’re a prick, it’s easy to see why…
(Out 1 December 2014 on FoldFM)