If you like variety on an album, this is the album for you.  These are nationalist songs, originally penned by Nick Griffin, Leader of the British National Party.

The first song ‘Hundred Years Hence’ immediately told me this album was going to be different from the rest. It is rocky with a tinge of Brit-Pop, and combined with superbly dark vocal by Alan Smith, presents a fantastic album opener, marking GWR’s quite sudden change of direction in musical terms. This song is about the traitors and social false-idols of modern Britain, (Soap-Operas, Politicians) and their inevitable demise and fall. A truly great start to the album.  

Next was ‘Colour’ sung by David Hannam. This is clearly written by Nick Griffin with Jackie very much fixed in his mind, or that is how I interpreted it anyway. A beautiful love song with a very catchy Brit-Pop feel to it which seems to suit Dave Hannam well, as he repeats this formula in other songs on the album. If you are looking for the album tearjerker, this is it.  

‘Different Drums’ is a musical achievement. This is Griffins’ favourite song as he recounts on the video section. Telling the tale of two fighting sides in the Ireland dispute, this dispute is captured in the imagery of the Bodran of the Gael and the Lambeg of Ulster, two warring instruments, and this song laments the story of the same people fighting each other, An historical track. The best feature of this song is Frank Ataks’ vocal, very powerful.  

‘I See You’ is the return of Hannam to one man and a guitar. A very sweet song about the changing face of society about a character who feels lost and unwanted in a society he doesn’t recognize anymore.  

‘Nothing Bloody Works’ is a very comical fast moving song with a humorous view on modern Britain. Sung by Colin Auty. Up-tempo song with a catchy rocky beat makes this foot tapping track.  

‘ Brown Sign Land’ is a song sung by Frank Atak about the collapse of British Industry and way of life. Franks’ vocal delivery is especially poignant on this track. It has feeling, it aches, moans, laughs manically, desperation and absurdity encompasses Franks’ vocal. It is a soft on the ears track with an eerie atmosphere.  

‘51 st State Lament’ is about the Amercianization of British society. Colin has a typically comical vocal on this very compelling song. This is another upbeat song with a very funny middle-eighth section featuring vocals by Nick Cass & family. Great lines from this track includes, ‘And if you’re looking for Stonehenge you’ll find the replicas’ in kent, the original ones in Disneyland we couldn’t pay the rent’.  

‘Corporal Fox’ is a well known track. It first appeared on a party political broadcast and has clearly come a long way. It started a few years back as an acoustic solo folk song, and has now been transformed into a Brit-Pop band song. Has it worked? Yes. This is really Dave Hannam at his best here. Highlighting the injustice of war veterans who return only to be treated like second class citizens, many of us have heard this song before, but listening to it now, it takes on a whole new meaning. Great song.  

‘Forgotten’ is a heartfelt song about the flight of young white lads who have been murdered for the crime of being white. This is a very moving song, has a beautiful line ‘Why don’t we here of the suffering and pain, the families and victims who died without blame’.  

‘Voices of the Dead’, is a heavy-metal punkish song with an incredible tempo and almost demonic feel to it. Alan Smiths’ vocal on this creepy, disturbing, as he sings from the perspective of the dead who have come back to ask modern day Britons’ to stand up and fight. This is really the biggest direction change that GWR have taken. For those of you who love hard, fast heavy metal music, you will love this.  

‘West Wind’ as sung by Lee Haggan. This is the album title track, and for good reason. This is a big anthemic-song which is stirring and triumphant. If you want to be inspired, you will love ‘West Wind’. Chorus line goes ‘But the west wind that rolls from the mountains, the west wind that rolls ‘cross the bay, the west wind that springs from the depth of our soul, will drive all the others away’. This is a great ending to the album, and it is a markedly different direction of music by Lee Haggan to embark on. Another rocky number of anthemic proportions.