Description

Like a coked-up, child-murdering American F-16 Falcon fighter pilot dropping 2000-pound cluster bombs on Iraqi villages, warsawpack have been on a skyward trajectory for the past year. Since the G7 release of the Hamilton group's debut album Gross Domestic Product on September 11th of 2002, the band has garnered overwhelming attention and rave reviews from music fans and jag-off critics alike. But unlike the aforementioned coked-up, child-murdering American fighter pilot, the majority of the world isn't wishing that warsawpack get incinerated mid-air by an Iraqi grandmother shouldering a Stinger surface-to-air missle.

Recorded this past spring with Robin Aube and Rudy Rempel at Toronto's Chemical Sound, Stocks and Bombs shows the evolution of a band totally committed to their craft. Their absolutely unique blend of hip-hop, jazz and rock has matured into more sparse, solid songwriting and their messages have only become more seditious. With passion and drama, vocalist Lee Raback chews up and spits out the official party-line of U.S. foreign policy, the dubious world wars on terror and drugs, and the numbing of the collective conscience by advertising and media.

This is where warsawpack shine – fusing spot on social critique with mind-blowing tuneage.