{"product_id":"chain-and-the-gang-down-with-liberty-up-with-chains","title":"Chain And The Gang - Down With Liberty... Up With Chains!","description":"\u003cp\u003eEverywhere that liberty goes, it leaves a path of destruction. Fast food, bad architecture, materialism, rampant greed, environmental destruction, imperial conquest, class struggle; these phenomena, when combined, seem to be synonymous with \"Liberty.\" So just as it's called \"liberty\" when war and greed stalk the land,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/shop.krecs.com\/collections\/ian-svenonius\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eIan Svenonius\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/shop.krecs.com\/collections\/make-up\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMake Up\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eNation of Ulysses\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeird War\u003c\/b\u003e) calls his band\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/shop.krecs.com\/collections\/chain-and-the-gang\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eChain \u0026amp; the Gang\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e. Like a true chain gang, they're on the road to confront and defy any freedom-lovers that come across their path. They shuffle, manacled, across railway yards, and through graveyards; they're on the side of the road, picking up the garbage as they walk, as people drive by, yelling at them. All they can do is become a chorus of metal meeting metal, hands hitting hands and a collective voice louder than one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe songs they have created on\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDown With Liberty … Up With Chains\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e[KLP203] are sing-alongs; 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 United States. It sounds as natural as a freak hail storm or the roar of a lion on the veldt. The album is cunningly constructed – like a series of tone poems or work songs; the remnants of time served, a universal debt paid to society. It started with one lifer (Svenonius) and grew to include a gang of small time bandits with\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/shop.krecs.com\/collections\/calvin-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eCalvin Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e,\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBrett Lyman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(\u003cb\u003eBad Thoughts\u003c\/b\u003e),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Pedal\u003c\/b\u003e,\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eFaustine Hudson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/shop.krecs.com\/collections\/the-curious-mystery\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Curious Mystery\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e),\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBrian Weber\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/shop.krecs.com\/collections\/dub-narcotic-sound-system\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDub Narcotic Sound System\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eVeronica Ortuño\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e(\u003cb\u003eFinally Punk\u003c\/b\u003e),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicolaas Zwart\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/shop.krecs.com\/collections\/desolation-wilderness\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDesolation Wilderness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/shop.krecs.com\/collections\/karl-blau\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eKarl Blau\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eChris Sutton\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/shop.krecs.com\/collections\/hornet-leg\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eHornet Leg\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eSixx\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/shop.krecs.com\/collections\/the-vibrarians\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Vibrarians\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e),\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/shop.krecs.com\/collections\/arrington-de-dionyso\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eArrington de Dionyso\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eAaron Hartman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eBenjamin Hartman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(\u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/shop.krecs.com\/collections\/old-time-relijun\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eOld Time Relijun\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e). \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow do they describe their sound? Something they just found. They dug it up from the ground. Essential to that soil: guitar, drums, organ, saxophone and chants; paying off our collective debt to the universe. There are songs with a driving locomotive engine (\"Reparations,\" \"Interview with the Chain Gang\"), a full-on choir of the disenfranchised (\"Cemetery Map,\" \"Deathbed Confession,\" Trash Talk\") and disentangled, soul-influenced invitations to a celebration (\"Room 19\" and \"Unpronounceable Name\").\u003ci\u003eDown With Liberty … Up With Chains\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Ian Svenonius is an inadvertent pioneer. His 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Wire (courtesy of K Recs)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mint Gallery Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47236992008422,"sku":"MLP24780","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0700\/1128\/9830\/files\/ChainAndTheGang-DownWithLiberty...UpWithChains.jpg?v=1767148890","url":"https:\/\/www.mintgalleryrecords.com\/products\/chain-and-the-gang-down-with-liberty-up-with-chains","provider":"Mint Gallery Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}