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STRAW MAN ARMY - "EARTHWORKS" (2024, full album)

I am really indebted to the Straw Man Army. Tremendo Garaje has changed my behavioral habits, turning me into a real sound junkie who never gets enough, and who dedicates no more than 15 seconds to each track. Not joking, It is a real fact, something that I am aware of, and that without being able to avoid it, has led me to ask myself many times, how hearing so much, I can listen so little. Maybe that's why I love this NYC lineup, because with them I recover feelings and memories of when I really enjoyed music, of when buying records was an adventure for me, and every batch I received I listened to from beginning to end until I wore out the groove. What a great band! What singular and unique sounds! Indeed, now that I think about it, Anarcho-Punk might be my favorite Punk subgenre, and that the description listed on Bandcamp mentions a band like Zounds to refer to this music makes me feel a little less stupid, I couldn't agree more, I've been a diehard fan of the Reading band since I was a teenager, and counting this one, any of the three magnificent albums that the bipartite formed by Owen and Sean have given us in the last four years, have made me come back to listen to a complete album over and over again, although this one, officially released today by the totally reliable La Vida Es Un Mus and D4mt Labs Inc, seems to me the best of them, and daring to say that, about a catalog that includes epic artifacts such as “Age of Exile” and “SOS” is certainly a temerity on my side. Even so, and if anyone has had the patience to read this bore, don't worry, it doesn't matter, I assure you that this “Earthworks” is capable of exceeding any expectation, no matter how high I have set it! Released by La Vida Es Un Mus & D4MT LABS INC. https://lavidaesunmus.bandcamp.com/al... https://d4mtlabsinc.bandcamp.com/albu... American Distribution courtesy of Sorry State Records 00:00 01. Clarion Call 01:14 02. Look Alive 04:48 03. Second Nature 07:06 04. Spiral 09:53 05. Rope Burn 13:08 06. Downwind 19:38 07. Extinction Burst 23:25 08. Staring At The Sun 26:44 09. Mass Production Of Loneliness 29:41 10. Be Gone 31:23 11. Turn The Wheel 35:16 12. Earthworks 40:05 13. Downstream Straw Man Army is Owen and Sean. "NYC duo Straw Man Army return with their third LP, “Earthworks”, to complete a trilogy of records begun with 2020’s “Age of Exile,” and 2022’s “SOS”. Whereas “Age of Exile” dealt with the haunted landscapes of colonial history in the Americas, and “SOS” gave voice to a crisis of the present moment, like a prayer in bewildering times, 2024’s “Earthworks” signals the band’s attempt to close this trilogy by turning their gaze towards the future, where paradox, complexity and contradiction spiral in ascendance to an agonizing pitch. While continuing to develop their own style of anarcho-punk, “Earthworks” finds the band pulling once again from jazz and ambient influences, expanded Krautrock rhythms, and post-rock experiments, with a stronger emphasis on melodic vocals and varied song structures than on previous offerings. Taking cues from the wistful anti-war harmonies of The Byrds and the angry melodies of Zounds, tracks like “Turn the Wheel” and “Second Nature” mark new territory for a group whose messages and methods of experimentation have merged to form a singular sound equally at home on All the Madmen Records or in the spiritual legacy of ESP Disk. “Earthworks” is an album that holds and subverts many contradictions—juggling the weight of melancholy, grief, guilt, impunity, and the yearning for clarity against the backdrop of boiling wrath; the wrath of nature, the occupied, the dispossessed, and of the mind against itself. To quote the track “Spiral” — “Is this all that’s left for us these days? / Apathy and rage?”— Straw Man Army offers this record as a companion to our frustration, our sickness, our despair, and a lifeline for our fugitive attention in the struggle for peace." Recorded and mixed November 23-June 24 by Ian Rose at The Daisy Chain in NYC. Produced by Ian Rose and Straw Man Army Mastered by Ville Valavuo. Art and layout by STRAW MAN ARMY with a gatefold collage by Quinn Harris. Tremendo Garaje: IG:   / tremendogaraje   FB:   / tremendogaraje   Uploaded with LVEUM's blessings