PROLETARIAT: Soma Holiday (LP) - Non-U/Radiobeat.

Like fellow Beantowners Mission Of Burma, The Proletariat rams blistering guitar noise through the heart of a punk attack. The Proles cut it closer to the vest than MOB, though, with more sheer speed and a militant political stance.

SOMA HOLIDAY’s anthemic artpunk shows more of the single-minded intensity of Jimmy Carter-era political punk than the indescriminate mania of reaganophony. Limited and severely constricted but, like The Jam, fierce on it’s own terms.

- John Leland, AMERICAN UNDERGROUND REVIEWS, April 1984

THE PROLETARIAT - Soma Holiday (Non-U/Radiobeat NR) 1983

Powerful full-frontal assault guitar rock from a politically committed Boston quartet. Soma Holiday ventures nebulous (and brief) opinions on eighteen topics ((famine, farm subsidies, soldiering, McCarthyism); the rock 'n' roll is decidedly more focused, raging and roaring with utter conviction. Richard Brown's vocals aren't nearly as good as Frank Michael's overdrive guitar, still Soma Holiday is a cool-sounding, resonably intelligent protest record that offers a viable, equally intense alternative to hardcore.

- Ira Robbins, Trouser Press Record Guide, Second Edition 1983