S.T.U.N. - Evolution of Energy

Powered by an absolute certainty of conviction, S.T.U.N. presents itself as the new-millennial MC5, from confrontational lyric to wall-of-noise sonic attack. They're tighter than their proto-punk ancestors, though, and vocally more effective; declaiming in octaves, Christiane J. and Neil Spies metaphorically reproduce street-mob chants, unifying masculine and feminine with a stridency that suggests unity and invincibility. The rhetoric is vintage radical, sprinkled with "brothers," "sisters," "revolution," and other anarcho buzzwords; when they shout "there go the generations," it's enough to bring a tear to any old White Panther's eye. Read More