Premiere: Boe Strummer – All One Ghetto

We’ve had a revelation. It turns out not every song, release and/or artist can comfortably and consistently mine just one vein of emotional territory – we recently came to the conclusion that states beyond ‘happy’, ‘sad’ and ‘really sad’ exist, and it’s a conclusion that Boe Strummer’s ‘All One Ghetto’ illustrates to extremely good-sounding effect.

Not only do the tune and its corresponding video exist outside of the aforementioned moods, they accomplish the feat of actually combining and traversing several at once, inhabiting a space equal parts melancholic, vaguely unnerving and likely a whole bevy of other strange, liminal and listener-specific moods. To appreciate it fully demands listening to the tune in conjunction with the stunning, Claire Barrault-produced video – the two come together as a complementary whole, and serve to heighten and make palpable the indistinct tension the piece taps into; it’s the sound of a mind unraveling, of shards of anxiety puncturing a barrier of suppression. So now you know. Aim your gratitude at Parisian label Permalnk, and do it immediately.