PROLETARIAT - Soma Holiday
From the pages of the CMJ New Music Report, Issue: 30
- Dec 19, 1983
A four-man hardcore troupe replete with chainsaw volume, razor sharp guitar
chords, and enraged vocals. No need for censorship
here-best cuts include "Decorations," "Hollow Victory" ("every
war has two losers"), "Famine," "Subsidized" and "Purge."
Guaranteed to put an edge in anyone's programming.
- From The Pages of the CMJ New Music Report, Issue 30, December 19, 1983
PROLETARIAT
Indifference
The Proletariat are by no means making that grasp for new music accessibility
like T.S.O.L. and Agent Orange, but on Indifference they expand themselves a
bit. Driving "punk rock" vocals stretch throughout the record, highlighting
a poignant, opaque guitar sound. Turn to the anthemic "Homeland" and
"The Guns Are Winning" and the angry impassioned vocals of one Laurel
Bowman; the whirlwind Sonic Youth guitar buzz that rings through "An Uneasy
Peace" (disonant yet subdued keyboards by Roger Miller play off the guitars);
and the minimalism vs. gyrating rock that is "Prelude/No Real Hope."
All this goes to show that the Proletariat is expanding-but without losing touch
with its ideals. Programmers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but
your chains.
- From The Pages Of The CMJ New Music Report, Issue 99, August 29, 1986