Title: Down With Liberty...Up With Chains! Artist: Chain & the Gang Label: K. Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 789856120321 Genre: Indie Rock/Pop Release Date: 2009-04-07 Number of Discs: 1
Ian Suetonius (Make Up, Nation of Ulysses, Weird War) and his band have created sing alongs on this record; a call and response in the tradition of gospel tunes, work favorites, and the girl groups and vocal aggregates that once dotted the corners of the Mid-Atlantic states. This record is simple and profound, the way a pebble on the beach is. There are no song cycles, sample beats, sequencers, or baby pictures of the artist as a tot. Suetonius's "career has been a studied attempt to advance the history of punk rock, using influences as tools to build with rather than styles to flaunt and discard" - the Wire.
Tracks: 1.1 Chain Gang Theme (I See Progress) 1.2 Cemetery Map 1.3 Trash Talk 1.4 Reparations 1.5 What Is a Dollar? 1.6 Interview with the Chain Gang 1.7 Deathbed Confession 1.8 Room 19 1.9 (Lookin' for a) Cave Girl 1.10 Unpronounceable Name
