Album · New Model Army
Impurity by New Model Army
Impurity is an album by New Model Army, released in 1990. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 1 countdown appearance in total. The biggest is “Purity”, on 1 list with a best position of #82.
Impurity, New Model Army's 1990 album on EMI, finds the Bradford band pressing on down the road they'd opened up on Thunder and Consolation the year before, where punk fury runs into folk fiddle. Ed Alleyne-Johnson's electric violin is back, sawing and soaring around Justin Sullivan's guitar and voice, and Adrian Portas adds his guitar to the fight. There's a new man on bass too: Peter Nice, better known as Nelson, stepping in for Jason "Moose" Harris, with Robert Heaton still in the ranks.
Sullivan, as ever the chief songwriter, writes like a man who can't pull politics apart from the soul, swinging between the public, the spiritual and the personal. It got to number 23 on the UK albums chart that October, and it turned out to be their last studio album for EMI.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Impurity on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Purity | 1 | #82 | – | 1990 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.