Reviews: Second Generation

Second Generation

“Mike Peters returns with an LP of “rare” Alarm songs recorded for the 90’s. The result is a likeable strummy set, with Peters playing half acoustically and half electrically and wringing as much passion as possible.”

Second Generation

“Mike Peters and The Alarm created a mystique that lured and challenged hundreds of thousands across the globe.Peters sings these tunes like he’s now connecting with them – you can hear broken bones in his soul rattle. In voice, performance and writing Mike Peters is just now hitting his stride.”

Second Generation

“Mike Peters, former banner-waving, rabble-rousing scout leader of The Alarm, returns with an LP of rare Alarm songs re-recorded for the ’90s. Sounds like a nightmare. Except that stripped of some of The Alarm’s pomposity, the 10 tracks-which range back to the very start of the Rhyl quartet’s career-sound surprisingly human. Forget for a second the frightened, on-end haircuts and tassled jackets and the result is a likably strummy set, made up of songs which didn’t make it on to The Alarm’s five LPs. Playing half acoustically and half electrically, Mike Peters mixes early U2 with Levellers (Second Generation itself sounds like U2 circa Stories For Boys, while Reason 41 could be Levellers busking outside Woolworth’s). Some of the lyrics, mostly The Alarm’s famed rallying slogans, sound wishy-washy now, but Mike Peters wrings as much passion as possible from them.”