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Suggested Improvements to Transportation Infrastructure in the Northeast Corridor

by Emperor X

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malcalor
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malcalor Some music is so specific to one's interests that flaws in its execution and roughness at its edges cease to matter. That said, there are some legitimately catchy songs here.

We want transit that works for the people NOW! Favorite track: Bullet Train to Worcester (for MBATA).
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AJ Rottini Ridiculous and beautiful. Made me homesick. Favorite track: We Demand Tri-County Rail Now! (for NJDOT).
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isqroll Fucking classic. If you broke emperor x down to a chemical compound and put it in a syringe it's this, just like it's pretty much everything else chad puts out there, such a wicked balance of unique and consistent. Dope as hell. Favorite track: An Objection to the Location of the Entrance to the Girard Ave. ACME (for SEPTA and PRA).
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you were playing Brighten the Corners in the mall overhead but we never talked so I never said that I found you impressive I never saw you again but I'm reminded a lot when the doors chime open at my favorite stop or a song from that album plays on my headphones and 20 years later when I yell into the empty void between the ground and Tenleytown Metro and I hear my words returned in a Swedish accent and 30 years later when I yell again my voice is blurred and hides my careful choice of words and my shouting turns to birdsong which turns into the air raid sirens we were under attack with the metal on the stereo and guns at our backs and our shoes full of quicksand ran through the tunnels shouting "FOOD NOT BOMBS" at the flickering lights from the Quaker architecture over Friendship Heights and a choir singing shape note and 40 years later I still yell a lot I'm still annoyed they routed wrong and that's their choice but cost per mile is not a sacred metric and 100 years later when I yell again for one last time the song you played still on my mind and badly routed trains collide from Bethesda to the other side connection Silver Spring Bethesda cathedral connection Silver Spring
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bad news they blocked our view of the riverbed with a box of new unused and unneeded offices why is the entrance to the new megamall separated from the street or elevated at all when the sidewalk two blocks down is full of SEPTA transfers? and this is not rhetorical why are your zoning meetings open to all when you just cut us all off from the good stuff like 100 other towns and 1000 other cities? cash cash cash cash cash cash give it up bad news we blocked the route of your trucker friends as they try to bring concrete for your dumb roads we will repurpose them how can you call this a development when the only thing that's going up is my rent and a pile of rebar slabs to stack your money? and anyway, why is the entrance to the grocery store in the parking garage on the highest floor? I know I asked you once and I'll keep asking until you admit it was a cash grab
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Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passaic%E2%80%93Bergen%E2%80%93Hudson_Transit_Project Accessed on: 2 March 2023
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I'm so tired when the alarm goes off I don't have time I'm late I hear the storm constantly pouring down the overwhelmed drainage grates I'm on the couch next to the monitors my new friend used to play his new band he's gotta go to work and I've got a show today but I look in the mirror the rain covered mirror and I think is anyone else alive? is anyone else mattering? I look in the mirror the passenger mirror and think does anyone's face decline? can anyone stop me shattering? Well at least I got to carpool with the shoegaze engineer Through the streets we were a car we were a boat we were a hydroplane lack of funds lack of planning and general lack of will and we're drowning together la la la la la we've got a dumb mandate to fill but I look in the mirror the passenger mirror and I think is anyone else alive? is anyone else on call tonight? and then I shoot out the mirror and I turn away from the mirror and I open the door to rain and I open my door to a flooded track
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I took the Q train home from a job I didn't like to a house I didn't like full of people I don't like who don't like me either but I never complain and to their credit they don't either I close the door and blast the speakers in my room at a volume all can live with Tom makes DMT on the stove and it's plausibly deniable that none of us know I fall in a black hole a black hole on the Q train I fall in a black hole I took the JMZ for a change a detour on a trip to Howard Beach on a Sunday that no one goes to church anymore at least no one that I know they'll all be sleeping 'til four so I look at the white bridge inadequate Big Bang Bing Bang on the white bridge Bing Bang on the white bridge Bing Bang on the white bridge Steady State
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I want a bullet train to Worcester that all the anarchists can ride for free one stop in the basement of our house express all the way to South Street but how're we gonna pay for it? how're we gonna pay for it? shovels cost money, and it's time to go to work at a place where I don't fit I want a hyperloop to Portland from Worcester Station to the Lloyd Center Mall half-hour trips departing every 5 minutes automated for the good of all outlaw all service interruptions and double-pay the workers that we need precisely follow our instructions or we'll be occupying I-90 "but how you gonna pay for it? how you gonna pay for it?" money's an excuse to keep us lazy and amused but complaining won't break its grip declare a new United Nations nail a flag up on the city hall tonight demanding fares of every regional connection be included as a basic right it costs us money to avoid it. I'd rather spend my $13.25 on getting snacks for the next house meeting and developing a warp drive "but how you gonna pay for it?" how you gonna pay for it?" Hurry up and join. We're printing trillion dollar coins. We'll spend them all on the public. I want a bullet train to Worcester on which everyone alive has a right to take a ride and they don't have to pay for it

about

Each track on this album corresponds with a concert performed in March 2023.

1. "Friendship Heights Metro Station and Related Proposal for Alignment Adjustments to the Purple Line (for WMATA)"
Released on Feb. 28 at 10:00am Eastern via Bandcamp
Concert in D.C. on Mar. 22 at Pie Shop --> bit.ly/3DpUOiu

2. "An Objection to the Location of the Entrance to the Girard Ave. ACME (for SEPTA)"
Concert in Philadelphia on Mar. 23 at Ukie Club --> link.dice.fm/O43ddc06a27d

3. "We Demand Passaic/Bergen/Hudson Tri-County Rail Now! (for NJDOT)"
Concert in Paterson, NJ on Mar. 24 at Prototype 237 --> prototype237.ticketleap.com/emperorx/

4. "Shoegaze Hydroplane City USA (for CDOT)"
Concert in New Haven on Mar. 25 at The State House --> www.eventbrite.com/e/the-world-is-a-beautiful-placew-emperor-x-cinema-stare-tickets-518287701467?uid=&sk_eid=40852946&aff=aff0songkick

5. "DMT/JMZ (for MTA)"
Concert in Brooklyn on Mar. 26 at The Broadway --> bit.ly/3jngFQW

6. "Bullet Train to Worcester (for MBATA)"
Concert in Boston on Mar. 27 at O'Brien's --> bit.ly/3WVMu0L

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released March 9, 2023

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