Steve Mason

Written against the backdrop of the early years of coalition government and worldwide social flux, Monkey Minds In The Devil’s Time released early Summer 2013, is a record of its times.

Politics, Occupy era-paranoia and the pursuit of social justice both on a personal and global level are right at the record’s core. You can hear them seeping through the sampled voices that lattice throughout the tracks and it’s there in the righteous boxer’s swagger of opening salvo “Fight Them Back”.

You can hear it in the swarming chaos of “More Money, More Fire” and even in the album title’s citation of a Buddhist term for an easily distracted brain that reads as allusion to today’s tech-addicted, ADD population.