While the British Prosecutor’s Office is studying reopening the “terrorism” case against Mo Chara, rapper of KNEECAP, alleging that the lawsuit was filed due to a technical error, the Irish group continues its career and announces a new album: ‘FENIAN’.
On April 24 we will be able to listen to this album, produced by Dan Carey, which will bring a more industrial and apocalyptic sound, according to the press release, in line with current times. The album will once again be loaded with political discourse: one of its cuts is directly called ‘Palestine’, and the cover portrays a man covered in a balaclava with the colors of the Irish flag and his eyes covered, as if he had been kidnapped.
‘FENIAN’, explains KNEECAP, is an Irish term that originally “named warriors from Irish mythology” and that “was later used as an insult towards the Irish.” KNEECAP recovers the word to describe dissidence against power; With it they intend to “appoint anyone who speaks truth to power.”
‘Liars Tale’, the first preview of ‘FENIAN’, already anticipates the dark sound of the album, relying on an energetic and vociferous musical production reminiscent of Prodigy. We’ve probably never heard Mo Chara and Móglaí Bap so goofy.
It also cannot be overlooked that the lyrics of ‘Liars Tale’ include a direct mention of Benjamin Netanyahu, whom KNEECAP compares to cow dung, which would be used “better as fertilizer for farmers.” The video clip, for its part, features the cameo of a zombie Margaret Thatcher, suggesting that her neoliberal and authoritarian ideas have returned.
