Album Review: Asian Dub Foundation - "Access Denied"
Okay so technically this one is a re-release from last year. But y'know what, we missed it then so better late than never eh? Anyway, Asian Dub Foundation - there was about five minutes some time around the millennium when everyone seemed to be bigging them up as the future of UK music and they chalked up two Top 20 albums and a Top 40 single with Buzzin' but then the post-Strokes US garage band boom happened and they just kind of got lost in the shuffle. To be honest though, I suspect they simply shrugged their shoulders, thought "Ah well" and went back to business as before with Access Denied being no less than their ninth album. And to be honest, I think that it might just be a blessing in disguise that ADF have been allowed to simply carry on what they were always doing without some corporate major label looking over their shoulders as Access Denied is exactly the sort of furious state of the nation address that this band has always done so well. It's a ...