Political lyrics and genre-fusion are Warsawpack’s trademark

Warning: Your ear drums will never be the same. One listen to the seven piece out of Hamilton, Canada will be all you need.

Warsawpack attacks with an eclectic fusion of hip-hop, jazz, groove and rock. Forming in the summer of 1999, each member of the group brings its own style to the group for one of the most interesting groups to recently come out of Canada.

The group consists of Lee Raback (vocals), Matt Cormier (drums), Aaron Sakala (turntables), Adam Bryant (baritone sax), Agit Rao (guitar), Simon Oczkowski (tenor sax/flute), and Jarolslav Wassmann (bass).

It’s a wonderful mix of jazz hip-hop songs with a few tracks of just mixing. Thirteen songs with strong political lyrics tear through this album. By far, one of the better songs is “Attention to Deficit,” where Lee sings about the capitalism and mass consumption.

“In this age of rapid change we’ve got new strains of the manmade pain/We got the stress the pressure and duress neurosis and psychosis in clinical test.” In the nine-and-a-half minute saga “Doomsday Device,” Lee continues with what he feels is wrong with the world. “I marvel at how my society is wired/while half of my man is starving the other half will be on a diet now/We got riots and we got lawyer client privilege CNN film footage of that flooded village.”

This album is for anyone with a love for music and socially aware lyrics. It’s definitely worth the time to check it out.