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Held to Ransom

from Survival Instincts by Jackals

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lyrics

They are not the source
It’s not who you blame
Held to ransom, attack the symptom

The ideas behind this song came last year (2011) as a response to the hysteria that surrounded the riots in London. I was surprised that people I had thought of as intelligent, rational and progressively minded were prone to react in such ridiculous, sensationalist ways and were happy to adopt the Tory/Tabloid/24 hour news coverage argument that they could simply be dismissed as acts of ‘mindless criminality’ and detached entirely from a social or political context. People are often happy to ignore the societal framework which produces things like an angry, often inarticulate, ‘underclass’ whilst buying into consumerism themselves, choosing to direct their anger at the product rather than the source of the issue.

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from Survival Instincts, released August 2, 2012
Recorded and Mixed 2012 with Atko at Mutiny Studios, Bradford.
Mastered by Joe C at Subsequent Mastering.

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