Music & Politics: The Pop Group - 'Nations'

The Pop Group - 'Nations'

Face to face with a very ugly transgressive leisure
Enough poverty is not only obscene but nausea-inducing
This evolved into the shit-on-the-wall blanket protests
And much worshipped horror tropes of their fore bearers / split personalities
Decades of deceptions /
American gods/infringe/or go beyond/the boundaries of a moral principle
The taboo diseased
Long before any of these things became famous
You better believe it
Scandalocity
Twisted logic
Hell is empty
Occluded from the delusions of time
The mirror of this text
Denial of service attack
The real madness
Deranged victims of gruesome consumerism
Conveniently blamed on your psychotic other half
Maybe nothing surprises us anymore?
Maybe nothing is sacred?
The disappointed voyeur
More suburban numbness
More existential boredom
The zombification of society
Is often the implication of society
The cross contamination
Of invisible positives
Predate fascination
Defiant
Dark
The other
Wholesale lies
Out of the shadows
Barbarians at the gates
Transgress the 21st century
Robbed of its vividness
Multiples auto bots
Physically non-violent forms
What brand of truth is yours?
No new freedom
Trash-aesthetics
Choose a fucking big television
Choose a starter home
Choose your friends
Choose leisurewear and fucking matching luggage
Nations of couch potatoes
Chained to their TV screens
In the ultimate gameshow
‘Welcome to the rain’
Crash, slash, become possible
Exchange strange currencies
Processed world
Your lifestyle is on trial
Project Phoenix
Remote viewing
Montauk boys
This message will self-destruct in ten seconds
Crash palace
Pay the rent - boy
Trash mansion morality invented
The transgression of internally invented ideals
The raging illnesses of our age
Transgress or act against the system
Power cut
Each is a resignation
Vote apathy
No disruption of the status quo
Critical mass is a syntactic distinction
A maddening cut up of historical reason
Or aggravated desensitization
Of other devices
Choice
Sin
Paralysis
Of synthetic diminished pleasures
The addiction doesn’t
But the addiction is
Part of the ride
We’re all addicted to something
Money
Sex
Television
Paranoia
Notoriety
Corporate crime
I was contextualised in relation to these things

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'NATIONS' is taken from album Citizen Zombie, released in February of 2015 gaining widespread praise, including album of the week slots in both the Independent and Scotsman, as well as ‘album of the day’ at BBC 6Music.

Produced by the much-acclaimed Paul Epworth, a long-time fan of The Pop Group, the 11-track album features original members Mark Stewart (lyrics / vocals), Gareth Sager (guitar) Dan Catsis (bass), and Bruce Smith (drums).


Digital: 
iTunes: http://geni.us/ThePopGroupCZombie
Amazon: http://geni.us/PopGroupCZombieAMZ
Bleep: https://bleep.com/release/56598-the-p...

Physical:
Amazon: http://geni.us/PopGroupCZombieAMZ 
Rough Trade: http://www.roughtrade.com/albums/90108

“Never less than compelling” 4/5 Q

“Lament for broken dreams and haunted dancefloors” 4/5 Mojo

“A glorious monstrosity of industrial dub and panicky pop” 18/20 Crack

“It’s heartening to know they’re still out there” 4/5 ‘Album Of The Week’ Independent

“Citizen Zombie exists to be played loud and liberating” 4/5 ‘Album Of The Week’ Scotsman

“This thing sounds massive, front to back. The defiant and inventive British band meets the modern era head-on” NPR.org

“They paved the way for Fugazi's politicized dissonance, Massive Attack and Nine Inch Nails' larger-than-life soundscapes, and the dancefloor-friendly art-rock moves of contemporary bands like Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Liars.” Rollingstone.com 2014

LIVE DATES

Feb 22nd Newcastle UK – BBC6 Music Festival (SOLD OUT)
Feb 23rd London UK – Rough Trade East 
Mar 1st Tokyo JP – Liquid Rooms (SOLD OUT)
Mar 5th Adelaide AUS – Adelaide Festival
Mar 6th Sydney AUS – The Factory Theatre
Mar 7th Melbourne AUS – The Corner Hotel
Mar 10th Los Angeles CA – Echoplex
Mar 11th San Francisco CA – Great American Music Hall
Mar 12th Seattle WA – Neumos Crystal Ball Reading Room
Mar 13th Chicago IL – Levitation Festival, Thalia Hall
Mar 14th Toronto ON – Lee’s Palace
Mar 16th Brooklyn NY – Rough Trade
Mar 17th New York NY – Bowery Ballroom
Mar 19th – 22nd Austin TX - SXSW

May 5th – Brighton UK – The Haunt
May 6th – Norwich UK – Arts Centre
May 8th – London UK – The Dome, Tufnell Park
May 9th – Sheffield UK – Plug
May 10th – Glasgow UK – CCA Arts Centre
May 11th – Liverpool UK – The Kazimier
May 16th – Aaurhus DK – Pop Revo Festival
May 29th – Aalst BEL – Netwerk Centre
May 30th – Porto PRT – Serralves Festival
June 12th – Birmingham UK – Supersonic Festival
June 19th – Hilvarenbeek NL – Best Kept Secret Festival
June 20th – Paris, FR – Social Club
June 21st – Ramsgate UK – Ramsgate Music Hall
June 26th – Bristol UK – Exchange
June 27-29 – Glastonbury UK – Glastonbury Festival

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