It takes just six words, and twenty one seconds, for Wall Street to get a mention on this punk rock propaganda from Warrior Soul frontman Kory Clarke, a download-only, lo-fi release that should act as an aural cattle prod to the masses.

Already occupying stereos and curious minds with the impressive 'Opium Hotel II' that saw release just several weeks ago, Clarke has decided that there is no time like the present to cluster bomb the market place with vitriolic outbursts that are as much rallying calls as songs.

'Light Your Bonfires' is a collection of electro acoustic songs that depict the current state of world affairs in an uncompromisingly harsh light; if ever the people needed outspoken auteurs like Kory then, with the aforementioned follow-up to his 2003 solo album and a recent incendiary Warrior Soul UK tour, music fans keen to break the chains of the banks, corporations and governments that rule them have been spoilt for choice. This set of recordings, raw and poisonous to the cunts of this planet, is revelatory, revolutionary and, thereby, essential listening.

Home to a slew of new songs crammed with biting lyrical observations and solutions and reworkings of classic songs from the Clarke back catalogue 'Light Your Bonfires' was scheduled for release on Bonfire Night, with the title track emailed to everyone who pre-ordered the album on November 1st so it could be played by all in unison: okay, so maybe those plans met a little kink in the system but, hey, we all know the system is fucked, right? That an album like this can be released at all is testament to the power of the internet in a musical sense - it may be suffocating record sales and strangling gig attendances but as a means to blanket bomb with information there has never been a device so all-encompassing. Use it as a tool not a crutch.

'This Revolution' opens the meeting and a hard-hitting mantra it is; sombre, subtle yet scratched and scarred with abrasive barbs of punk polemic. A voice, a guitar, a tambourine - a three pronged statement of intent that proves that shouting loudest isn't always the way. Hauntingly effective. '2012' is noisier; distorted guitar squirming away under Clarke's vocals that have gotten rawer and less refined over the years, fitting the subject matter perfectly. The title track is a simple yet thematically crushing song that deserves to be an anthem, a handful of hope to the desperate and disillusioned. Use it to inspire and activate independent thought.

'Super Power Dreamland' opens a pocket of the album riddled with reworkings of songs from the Warrior Soul back catalogue. This classic from the immortal 'Last Decade Dead Century' debut does not disappoint and is proof of two things; that revolutionary free thinkers like Clarke, like Orwell, like Bradbury, were not only ahead of their time, but also essential, educational and wholly appropriate to future generations. 'Charlie's Out Of Prison', again from that startling debut, follows and is more of the same; noisy and beautifully tainted. A 'Chill Pill' gets cracked out of its plastic strip as 'Song In Your Mind' trips out around the listener, before 'Downtown' hurls a litter bin through a bank window.

Another song from 'Last Decade...' will appear before the album is done, an awe-inspiring 'In Conclusion', bookended by a trio of tempestuous tuneage; 'American' is a '60s psychedelic swathe of warm angst, 'The Band Gets High' is similar in vein yet with more rock 'n' roll coursing through its bloodways, not surprising when you consider that it comes from 'New Rock Underground', the Space Age Playboys album that is also plundered for closer 'Cities, Scenes and Thieves', appearing here in a wonderful acoustic guise.

Is it a coincidence that, in troubled times, prophets and revolutionaries rise, and rise again. No, it is a blessing. A curse for some, of course, but only those who deserve to be cursed. Let's rise together to fight the evils of this world with albums like 'Light Your Bonfires' as our soundtrack.

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