Home-Made In Sunderland

Designs Of Anarchy And Community

Designs Of Anarchy And Community
Tracklist:
  1. Reasons Why
  2. Slowly, Suddenly
  3. Grassroots
  4. Red & Black
  5. Solidarity (Remix)
  6. All Out
  7. No Compromise
  8. Midnight Expropriations
  9. Everyday Struggles
  10. A World Transformed
  11. Bakunin's Dictum
  12. Lessons From The Levellers
  13. Imperfect (But Alive And Trying)
Written between May - September 2010
All tracks written, produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Neil O'Brien.

This was another of my more political albums, written at a time when I was getting heavily involved with activism - though not yet with an anarchist group. The title came from some 17th century Leveller pamphlet that said something along the lines of: "...though our enemies accuse us of designs of anarchy and community..." As soon as I read that I just thought "Hell yes! Guilty as charged!"

I was pretty happy with this record - maybe some of the vocals could do with compressing, the guitars are a little sloppy and the mix could use more polish, but I think the songs are decent and it all comes together in a coherent way.