[kj] Two more reviews

[nicholas fitzpatrick]

Sunday Mail:

Killing Joke ***

Zuma / July 28

If much of this album sounds over-familiar, it's because Killing Joke are 
victims of their own success. Their lyrical obsession with war was so 
prescient as to now seem cliched and their heavy sound has hit the 
mainstream. Even Foo Fighters and ex-Nirvana star Dave Grohl's drumming is 
competent rather than remarkable. The one exception is You'll Never Get To 
Me, which is bizarrely reminiscent of Pink or Christina Aguilera. Killing 
Joke have never been strangers to the anthemic, but this was still a 
pleasant surprise.


The Observer.


Killing Joke (Zuma)

Electro, new wave and punk-funk may all be enjoying a resurgence, but there 
are limits to the early Eighties revival. Aren't there? Post-punk bogeymen 
Killing Joke are back in the Top 40, and no less an icon than Dave Grohl 
(Foo Fighters/ Nirvana) plays drums on the Joke's twelfth (or thereabouts) 
album. Jane's Addiction, who ripped them off, are back, and Tool - ditto - 
remain one of the biggest bands in America. Reassuringly, though, Killing 
Joke sounds quite fashion-proof. Scary Jaz Coleman bangs on about occult 
powers over tribal backings like the Millennium never happened. You're left 
with a grudging admiration, but this dated witchy churn won't travel far 
past a metal audience.

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