For this new Gogol Bordello album, songwriter Eugene Hutz set out to blend post-punk textures and aggro to Gogol Bordello's free-wheeling gypsy-punk - He chose to work with the production team of Nick Launay (Gang of Four, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Idles) and Adam "Atom" Greenspan (Nick Cave, Idles, Flogging Molly) to accomplish this goal - Together with his long running band, they knocked out twelve super punchy and hook-laden songs.

The title track, 'We Mean It, Man!' is all pile-driving punk intensity which crescendoes into no-wave sax skronk. 'No Time For Idiots' is a Strummer/Jones-esque riff-punk with a giant chorus payoff. 'Life Is Possible Again' voices an optimism against the dread of the Ukraine war. 'Solidarity' features New Order's Bernard Sumner on the Cockney Rejects Solidarnosc-punk anthem updated to address the Ukraine war effort. This is the album and political message the world needs now.

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