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).
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).
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
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
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
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
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
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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/
The gorgeous and gripping new record from Anika Pyle features minimalist folk & pop songs that struggle to make sense of loss. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 21, 2021
supported by 26 fans who also own “Suggested Improvements to Transportation Infrastructure in the Northeast Corridor”
the way tmg continually evolve their sound and find fresh ways of making music is inspiring. masters of the concept album! all bangers here, as one might expect. rudy