Twelve years of trumpeting The Cause, you have to wonder what – after all the [a]Levellers[/a]’ fervent, soapbox hectoring – that actually is. ‘Hello Pig’, their sixth studio album, does little to clarify.
, while the latter uses an apalling, Sunday school parable about an old hermit as a metaphor for delusion.
‘Hello Pig’ fails not because it cares, but because it cares too much; its scattershot, Samaritan mentality rendering it by turns baffling and plain embarrassing. For the [a]Levellers[/a], the times they ain’t a’ changing. At all.