…The CD is actually 13 tracks and includes bonus track ‘My God is Better than You’re Gawd’.
The initial single from Stockholm Syndrome, Fishbone’s first new album in nearly two decades, arrived shortly before last year’s presidential election. The bluntly titled “Racist Piece of Shit” pulls no punches regarding the ska-funk-metal pioneers’ feelings toward our current president and his supporters, even if musically, it’s a relatively unambitious (though scorching) tune. Eight months and a lot of bad news later, Fishbone’s still fuming, but they’ve worked hard to channel that fury into heavy, complex, and deeply idiosyncratic music that can stand up to their best material from the late 1980s and early ’90s.
The band began as a bunch of junior high misfits…