I haven't been well this year but I'm making changes that look to be getting me into a better place. This might mean less frequent albums (one each month was unsustainable anyway even if it was fun while it lasted), but will hopefully result in more thoughtful stuff. Or not! I don't really know I guess. Like I said, I have not been well and I'm not going to let these songs stop me from getting better.
In the meantime: 16 new songs (17 if you buy the tape). Carlin once said "It's a big club, and you're not in it." This album posits that the full arm of the working class is an even bigger club, if you're willing to swing it.
The album art is much more intentional than my other covers have been. A YouTube comment had me reeling about whether it was clear where I stand, so I will exercise my Zach Braff Impulse and explain a bit about the cover. To the left and right side are two tools of oppression exercised by the state against the public in defense of capital; a knight's arm on the left represents the sort of technofeudal lords attempting to strong arm the non-billionaire class, and to the right an actual literal military vehicle represents the current ruling class' executive arm, which was being used at the time (and likely continues to be used) against civilians protesting the government disappearing people. The art, then, is intended to represent Hague fantasies, for lack of a better descriptor. None of us are free until we are all free, and that means that no one will be free until the last prison is abolished.
Here's the album opener, Unlimited Schenken. This song is about Contract Bridge but also this song is about that moment in an online leftist space where you and several other users will agree that direct action is probably best, and yet for some reason, you find yourselves deadlocked on messaging.