march second second march
new preteen is up: sherman’s second march
some thoughts:
- came out more religious than we thought. that’s in a big way cause the popularization of the ‘weird’ that we like to look into. we had to dig a bit deeper than before, and the result was going into older sources. some stuff ages a bit worse, and there’s only so much communism we can put into a CD. religion is more timeless
- the verses on Black Block are sampled from an a capella by Utah Phillips. google him
- the beats date from between 2007 to 2011. the CD was assembled from separate piles of beats and samples, and into an album, mostly in the last week of February 2011
- boyfriend is a cover
- electrohead is not a cover
- the sample on unapologia is real and not taken out of context. we actually considered recutting it to try and get him to make more sense, since he likes to change what his pronouns refer to mid-sentence, but figured that it’d be best left alone
- this is our longest CD ever and savannah is our longest song ever
- “message from our sponsor” is our second shortest album song ever and third shortest overall. “uncanny valley (radio edit)” is 4 seconds shorter, “uncanny valley (extended)” is 2 seconds shorter
- “uncanny valley (radio edit)” is actually too short to go onto a CD
- savannah is too long to fit on any CD format currently in use. it could fit on a DVD-A though
- “flaming sanken seven stamp my tote” was the most renamed song on the album. most were different onomatopoeias for that first line
- “message from our sponsor” made the cut to be on the CD by about 2 hours
- “a prayer for the nation of africa” is not a complicated audio hack. the speaker really seemed to not have been clear on the difference between a continent and a country
- despite being in almost every live show, this is the first time that Steve contributed audio to an album. he wrote some of the backing audio in “savannah” and “hate and rockets”
- i think the only sampled statement in the history of the band that i genuinely can say “i agree with this entirely” is the opening alan moore line in “black block”: “Anarchy is, and always has been, a romance.”