Why FEVER 333’s STRENGTH IN NUMB333RS Was The Best Debut Album Of 2019
To say that STRENGTH IN NUMB333RS was an album that the world needed in 2019 is an understatement. Released at the very start of the year, as both the months and political frustrations unfolded, its songs became even more relevant, even more necessary and even more potent. Yet to cast it purely as a reaction to more recent events – specifically the effects of Donald Trump’s presidency, the resulting rise in racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, misogyny and homophobia, and a vast and ever-widening political divide between those on the right and the left – is reductive. Because as much as that plays a part here, the roots of this album, and FEVER 333, go much further back. It takes in the entire history of the USA; a country built on the backs of slaves, in which the ruling classes have thrived...
