The Human Error’s social conscience courses through their second album – Ghost Army Deception – like the prolific march of Vape shops across the country’s high-streets. The Human Error, a young forward-looking band aware of Punk’s history and historical milestones that have shaped the collective world view…
The opening track Ghost Army focuses on the WW2 American 603 unit which bemused and befuddled the Germans with inflatable tanks, fake radio shows and “mirages” of infantries (sic). Blast Shadows is a Punk expose of the remnants of a nuclear attack; the eerie outline of life destroyed by “the top firework display of 1945”. I know these details because I had to research both tracks. The Human Error long-playereven offers an education. How Punk is that?
The contemporary teachable moment of Flags of the World belies theband’s young age and professes a mature and objective view of nationalism. “Your pride is a beacon of fear,” pithily articulates the alternative perspective. Like all good Punk bands, politics infuses their music like banana and mango Vape smoke filling a packed carriage…
Furthermore, the band’s personal life story is also the catalyst for inspirational tracks. Left to Fight Alone is a homage to beloved family members who have sadly departed. The sentiments are honest and raw…”and then it sunk in, I’d never see you again.” Clearly, the band have turned these sad partings into milestones to spur them on to celebrate their memory. Accordingly, I’m sure this album would have generated a smile of pride and an inevitable joke or two.
The Human Error are serious about their music and their subject matter. No More is a world weary treatise of the worthless act of wars: “Always money for bombs. Not hospital beds.” You can dismiss as “teenage angst” if you so wish, however, there is a depth to their staccato lyrics if you take the time to invest.
Musically, Human Error are the component parts of Joe Brown on incessant bass, Adam Welsh on insistent drums and Joe Ree on unremitting guitar, with his trademark affected drawl as recognisable as Reform’s inflatable reasons for the state of the nation; regardless of misinformation and rhetoric, the informed and considered Human Error have determined their own political viewpoint. Ghost Army Deception, is the second album by the Human Error and this is no phoney broadcast from the 603 unit…this milestone is the real McCoy!
By: The Swilgate Scuttler
Ps Dedicated to Phil Brown and David Ree for their inspiration.
Ghost Army Deception by the Human Error can be found on Bandcamp