Letters from the Underground

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Letters from the Underground
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Studio album by
Released11 August 2008 (2008-08-11)
Genre Rock, alternative rock, folk punk
Label On the Fiddle Recordings
Producer Sean Lakeman
Levellers chronology
Truth and Lies
(2005)
Letters from the Underground
(2008)
Static on the Airwaves
(2012)
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Metacritic 54/100
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Letters from the Underground is the ninth studio album by folk-punk rock band the Levellers. It includes the single "Burn America Burn", which is a social commentary on the recurrence of school shootings in the US.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "The Cholera Well"
  2. "Death Loves Youth"
  3. "Eyes Wide"
  4. "Before the End"
  5. "Burn America Burn"
  6. "Heart of the Country"
  7. "Pale Rider"
  8. "A Life Less Ordinary"
  9. "Accidental Anarchist"
  10. "Duty"
  11. "Fight or Flight"

Bonus Disc - Letters From The Underground (Metway Acoustic)

  1. "On The Beach"
  2. "The Everyday"
  3. "TV Suicides"

Personnel

Musicians



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