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This Bright Apocalypse's latest album: inspired by Africa, but handy in most other crisis zones.
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Need a little help getting motivated to trudge out to the polling place on Nov. 4? Decider has weighed the issues and scoured some of 2008’s finer local music for inspiration.
This Bright Apocalypse’s “Slogans For A Savannah” goes through a whole cycle that should resonate in a lot of precarious situations where politics and economics intersect. Starting with Adam Cargin’s post-punkish guitar riff, it gradually spreads into a weird purgatory where voices and percussion blend warmly as Luke Bassuener sings, “Let’s watch the vultures, let’s let it all burn.” Then drummer Chris Sassman hits a feistier rhythm and the band offers up this refrain: “Slow, slow, go, go, steady, steady, grow, grow.” Is it some kind of plan? Maybe, but it’s somehow reassuring to hear the song build up to its final crash of relief, as the group vocals, guitar, and percussion spill out all around each other.
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