II, by Robocop

II

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1.	Intro 02:18	buy track
2.	I Hope All Your Friends Die 01:29	buy track
3.	Assassination Markets 01:18	buy track
4.	Feminism Uberalles 01:12	buy track
5.	Car Sex Crash 01:04	buy track
6.	Fed To The Wolves 00:57	buy track
7.	CBMP 00:27	buy track
8.	Cut Up 00:25	buy track
9.	You Suffer 00:06	buy track
10.	Skramz 01:27	buy track
11.	Maine Is The Bastard 02:16	buy track
12.	Aftermathematics 07:33	buy track
13.	Outro 03:33	buy track

about

This was written in the context of what we saw as a world spinning out of control. Paranoia, conspiracy theories, the structure of media, information control, etc. I was pretty keen on incorporating this into our imagery/lyrics without extensive commentary, The assumption was that people listening to this would let that wash over them, and get a sense of what was bubbling up from below the surface in our culture. This all reads very differently, now that far-right ideological extremism has become part of mainstream culture. The things we were "portraying" on this album should not be perceived as an endorsement of those ideas. I really wanted to give these things air to warn people about where things were going, it's hard to get people to remember how naive the majority of the population was before this album. This was before the capital insurrection, before Trump, before gamergate, before Snowden, etc. It was written as a small band in northern Maine. I have tried to clarify this whenever possible, but it's there's no way to preserve this in the environment in which it was formed.

I wrote about and sampled the things I did, because I wanted to make music to show what it was like in the deepest recesses of the net. Now that this monster has crawled out it's hole, I want to make it clear: none of these songs was written from my perspective. In fact, none of the Robocop songs were ever written from my perspective. I thought of these more as experimental films, or some of the more extreme J.G. Ballard novels. I wanted our music to be a sort of "atrocity exhibition" where the worst parts of our culture could be grafted together. The fact that every topic covered here had essentially been grist for the mill in the genre's we were invested in, fit into the equation as well.

Regardless, I want to be completely clear: I wrote the lyrics as someone invested in far-left labor politics, (non-exclusionary) feminism, anti-racism, and LGBTQ rights. My commitment was/is more expansive than that, but I want to make that clear, because, even I feel repulsed by some of what's included. It was meant to repulse, do not read anything else into it.

Nazi Punks Fuck Off.

- RP

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released April 10, 2014

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Robocop Orono, Maine

Ash Abbott, Tom Bennet, Ryan Page.

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ryanpage1989@gmail.com

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