Nightwatchers – Common Crusades

Common Crusades is Nightwatchers second album since their inception back in 2016 the first being La Paix Ou Le Sable (Peace Or Sand), the new album from the title alone seems to have a theme that carries on from their first release.  A shouting out on the wrongs of colonialism, a wanton need to press ideals of your nation on others through violent means if need be. The band name Nightwatchers itself has connotations of guardians of good against evil, and after reading in more depth as to their intentions as a band, this has been even more reinforced, as the last album was lyrically involved in taking to task the crimes and abuses perpetrated by the French state in Algeria and Cameroon in particular, yet this also stands for all of the colonial occupied territories, the new album conti...

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