Albums : Dropkick Murphys : Signed and Sealed in Blood
Albums : Dropkick Murphys : Signed and Sealed in Blood
Listen To Dropkick Murphys : Signed and Sealed in Blood
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Who Is Dropkick Murphys?
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Dropkick Murphys formed in 1996 in Boston, MA. The band was originally just a bunch of friends looking to play music for fun. We started playing in the basement of a friend’s barbershop and our goal was to blend the musical influences we had grown up with (Punk Rock, Irish Folk, Rock, and Hardcore) into one loud, raucous, chaotic, and often out of tune mix that we could call our own.
To our surprise people seemed to like it and we began to record music and tour constantly. To date we have released numerous singles & EP's, a live album, a DVD and six full length albums and have had the good fortune of being able to play across a large portion of the world. We are truly grateful to the many friends and bands that have helped us out and supported us along the way in the US, Canada, Europe, U.K. Ireland, Scandinavia, and Australia as well as the many countries we look forward to playing in the next century.
The bands’ main goal is to play music that creates an all for one, one for all environment where everyone is encouraged to participate, sing along, and hopefully have a good time. In the true spirit of punk rock we view the band and the audience as one in the same; in other words our stage and our microphone are yours.
In addition to hopefully bringing people together for a good time, we hope to share some of our experiences and beliefs in working class solidarity, friendship, loyalty and self- improvement as a means to bettering society (i.e. You can preach till you’re blue in the face but if you’re lying in the gutter no one’s gonna listen. If you pick yourself up by the bootstraps and live your life to the best of your ability you may set an example that others will follow).
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Signed and Sealed in Blood Review
Going on 17 years since the Dropkick Murphys’ humble beginnings as Boston’s little streetpunk band that could, the seasoned Celtic punks have taken their earnest, workman-like brand of street-smart hardcore to unprecedented heights of mainstream popularity. Back in 1998, when hoards of leather-clad, liberty-spiked punks once tipped cars in riotous protest after being locked out from seeing the band at an all-ages show in Cambridge, MA, it seemed like the Dropkicks, then a traditional four-piece with a different singer, had already found their niche. After all, the dingy bowels of rock club life suited the band’s gruff, no-bullshit punk stylings perfectly.
But the last decade or so has proven that the band had not hit the ceiling by being Beantown’s reigning punk band of repute. Instead, they expanded their membership to include a revolving door of fiddle, mandolin, and bagpipe players (oh, Spicey McHaggis, we hardly knew ya), built to expand on the Irish and folk touches only grazed on early albums like Do or Die and The Gang’s All Here. In the process, the Dropkicks became more than a band, instead a cultural signpost for all things Irish, blue collar, and rowdy. You want to get fucked up and throw your arm around an old pal for a few sing-alongs? This quickly became your band.
That’s all fine and good, and it’s no doubt served the motley punks well. But as bit by ambition and big ideas as they’ve become in recent years, Signed and Sealed In Blood, the Dropkicks’ latest, is iron-clad proof that the band is at its best when it cuts the fat and lets its loud, rugged everyman tendencies bleed out. It was hard not to scoff a little at 2011′s Going Out In Style, a muddled stab at a concept album that fell apart from overindulgence. But if nothing else, Signed shows the band has refocused itself after such missteps, hitting a nice balance between their punk rock roots and their affinity for Celtic, folk, and classic rock.
Yes, the Boston band has found its way back to what it does best, a point established early on the aptly titled album opener “The Boys Are Back.” When the band collectively jumps over the refrain, “The boys are back and they’re looking for trouble,” it’s hard not to read into it with a healthy dose of foreshadowing. Elsewhere, the band expertly splits the difference between its rabble-rousing punk rock ways and its penchant for Irish folklore. The hard-charging “Burn” motors along at a break-neck pace, accented by banjo, tin whistle, and frontman Al Barr’s trademark sandpaper bark. “Rose Tattoo” is another banner entry in the band’s growing list of anthemic rally cries, while “The Season’s Upon Us” tips its cap to debauched merriment with the kind of gusto not seen since The Pogues’ heyday. And while you can’t replicate “Shipping Out To Boston” note for note, “Prisoner’s Song” is a track cut from the same rollicking cloth.
All told, Signed and Sealed In Blood is an album every bit as hardboiled as its title would suggest. The Dropkicks have long since stumbled upon a festive musical formula that suits them, and it’s one that they’ve settled into almost too well in recent years. But nearly two decades into their lunchpail brand of Irish punk, they’ve managed to offer up their most cohesive and heartfelt work in years, and that in itself is worth raising a glass to.
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