Allan Jamisen has never been one to play it safe, and โThe Coalitionโ feels like him doubling downโsharper, darker, and more confrontational than ever. A composer, painter, and true outsider artist, Jamisen thrives in the cracks between genres, and this single lives right there, fusing trip-hop, industrial, jazz, and spoken word into a statement. Itโs cinematic, politically charged, and unapologetically unsettling, like the soundtrack to a late-night political thriller you canโt look away from.
Right from the jump, the track pulls you into its shadowy world. Thumping, tightly wound drums lock into a groove that instantly gets your head nodding, while ghostly synths shimmer in the background. Jamisenโs voice enters low, thick, and deliberately mechanical, delivering lines with a robotic spoken-word precision that makes every syllable feel weighted and intentional. He repeats the refrain โItโs better than before,โ making the irony seep in slowly, almost uncomfortably, and relatably in your brain, because this is the story you hear all the time while experiencing the exact opposite.
As the song unfolds, the atmosphere grows richer and more menacing. Industrial textures grind beneath the surface while flashes of jazzy brass and woodwinds slither in, bringing an eerie elegance with a sinister mystiqueโitโs the double-edged sword that is the corporate, capitalistic, and corrupted administrative world. With this beautiful contrast, where the groove is catchy and hypnotic, the mood stays tense, suspenseful, and loaded with meaning. A reverbed voice cuts through the haze, โTake it from the poor and give it to the rich,โ and the line lands like a blunt-force truth bomb.
If you havenโt figured it out yet, โThe Coalitionโ takes aim at the tangled web of political power, military force, and corporate profit, exposing how conflict is often packaged and sold as protection or progress. The repetition, the groove, and the cold delivery all reinforce that idea of normalization, of how violence and exploitation become easier to swallow when dressed up in the right language.
โThe Coalitionโ is provocative, stylish, and deeply unsettling. So, better yet, be aware of the implications if you canโt escape them.
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Review by: Naomi Joan