Blog: Consequence Of Sound

Flogging Molly return with the Speed of Darkness

For their forthcoming release, Flogging Molly decided on a change of location and tone. The Celtic punk-inspired ensemble traveled eastward from their longtime base of Los Angeles to Detroit, in order to capture the ongoing U.S. economic collapse for their writing process. The resulting effort, as accordion player Matt Hensley reported to NewsOK , is about "where the country’s at right now, how a lot of jobs are being lost and livelihoods are being flushed down the toilet by, to some degree, corporate greed and weirdness in the economy”. The political tones continue through the  [...]