There Is a War/Diamonds In The Mine [coll] – [Go Midnight Records]

humana   9/2/2008   7-inch, A Library

Side A is ???There Is a War??? from A Gun Called Tension. It starts out with drums, then piano like chopsticks enters and establishes a dub beat, slow enough to make you try 45 in case you???re wrong about the 33 rpm. Clear voice speaking with voices joining him about the war between left and right, black and white, odd and even, rich and poor, man and woman, those who say there is a war and those who say there isn???t. ???Come back to the war, pick up your tidy burden.??? Doesn???t grab me. Low-fi, spare, with hip-hop and reggae tinges. Side B is ???Diamonds in the Mine??? from Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death. It features garage-y guitar and male vocals singing about lack–???there are no diamonds in your mine.??? Basic strumming and tambourine sounds. Hard to make out the words, but ???bitch??? is one of them.