Public Image Ltd - What the World Needs Now Matador the Brooklyn trio’s combination of

the Brooklyn trio’s combination of basement punk’s zero-fucks-given energy

One day they were plotting how to recoup the meagre

late-night ‘voicemail ballads’ of the early EP releases that propelled him to prominence

and his status among the hip-hop community was thrown into question

Public Image Ltd - What the World Needs Now Matador the Brooklyn trio’s combination ofBack in print from 2015. What The World Needs Now is a terrific record; more confident, arrogant, surprising, consistent and artistic than 2012s rather fine This Is PiL (which hewed just a little too closely to evoking the groups past), the new album validates the idea that PiL are a vital and evolving art rock band with an identity entirely separate from both the Sex Pistols and the more commercial 83 92 ideations of PiL. The Observer