Lulubelle III’s new album Human Rights and Wrongs is reflection on the things which make life good and bad. The songs have blend of Pet Shop Boys and Kraftwerk synths with Stranglersesque guitars. In the digital age life is lived and monitored on the Internet, human contact is now too often a series of tweets and status updates sent by people hunched over phones the topic of the track Long Distance. Looking over our shoulders the government protects our freedoms by reading all we look at and share, no need to worry though if you have nothing to hide? Musdep was written a year before the Edward Snowden revelations about NSA and GCHQ total surveillance and is now scarily more relevant than ever. For The Birds wonders what it would be like soar free as a bird unburdened by the daily pressures of our austerity society. Music is our escape and it is our Sound of Freedom whether mellow or Industrial Music. All albums need a road song and our one is about the A6, it is not quite as famous as Route 66 but give it time, the 212 bus from Belfast to Derry takes the journey many times a day, come have a look out the window with us. For all the amateur sleuths please don’t bother Googling Jack Hughes he didn’t do it, he’s a pun, don’t be upset and shout J’accuse please. Two Into One is the big closing track looking at how we can be be isolated by our fears and sometimes all we need to do take a small leap of faith.
