This Is Pil
For a band that built its name on ripping up the rule book, what do Public Image Ltd. sound like 20 years since their last album, and over 30 since their first?
In 1984, Public Image Ltd released This Is What You Want… This Is What You Get as well as the single “This Is Not A Love Song.” They rank among the least compelling of PiL’s output, due largely to the gratuitous self-reference that had replaced the group’s eerie, oblique, post-punk creep. After a 20-year break in…
When Dick Clark died a few months ago, one of the most widely-circulated videos posted in his honor was a clip of Public…
That Sex Pistols reunion a few years back must have whetted John Lydon's appetite for some reformation benefits. Lucky for him, he's got another band he can reunite with: Public Image Ltd.
John Lydon and co's bristling DIY album veers from the ridiculous to the sublime, writes <strong>Kitty Empire</strong>
If lyrically This Is PiL marks a step forward for Lydon, then musically the album seems caught in a mid-’90s production rut.
<strong>Alexis Petridis</strong>: PiL's new album both recalls their glory days and contradicts them at the same time – but then that's John Lydon all over
The former Johnny Rotten shows he still has fuel left in the tank. CD review by Thomas H Green
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