“I suppose this could be considered my protest album” is how Bedford artist Luke Tuchscherer describes Living Through History on the blurb on the back of the LP. Certainly, from the first lines of the opening title track: “Sirens scream through the city / People under siege / Are we fighting an enemy / Too big to defeat?”
Through to the album’s signing off with a recording of a 1919 speech by Lenin denouncing workers’ oppression at the hands of the capitalists, there’s no doubt that impassioned dissent is a major motor on this album.
Tuchscherer mainly rails against social and economic injustice and exploitation, but also political hypocrisy and (sadly, in much more modern times than Lenin) the ongoing rise of…