IN SHORT
SOUNDS LIKE: 60s garage rock, early 70s funk, 80s hardcore and experimental hip hop laced with a dose of righteous polemic
“WHEN YOU’RE BLACK and you’re American, you don’t really feel American, you just feel Black,” says Pierce Jordan, vocalist of Philadelphia experimental hardcore band Soul Glo. He’s talking about the frustrations that he sees around him, in his neighbourhood, his family and society at large, that have informed his band’s superb new album, Diaspora Problems.