Street Sweeper Social Club review

If you haven’t bought into Street Sweeper Social Club (SSSC) yet, you need to. I’ve been waiting for the album release for a few months now – I hurried into the record store on Tuesday and felt like a cheeseball buying a CD. I’ve been listening to it nonstop for two days and I love it. It sounds like Rage Against the Machine grew up and embraced the irony of it. Boots Riley kills and Tom Morello sounds like he’s been recording riffs into his tape recorder, for oh, I dunno about 8 years?

I hate rap-rock as much as the next guy, but Tom Morello is no mere rock musician and Boots Riley is not your typical MC. Who else can rhyme a hardcore leftist verse over a sick squaredance do-si-do track? SSSC makes it work – wait for the wah pedal in “Promenade.”

Ace.