Dormant since 2004, Sydney’s City Lights have finally recorded their second album. Without People… is a smash of an opening single, fuelled by all the mess and noise of early punk, with breathing space in between each verse that let’s you know they’re thinking hard. The lyrics are a chain of easy-rhyming political slogans, “I believe in democracy, don’t want no monarchy, bring back humanity.” (Maybe they’re not thinking so hard about the lyrics.)
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