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SUMMARY:Propagandhi
DESCRIPTION:The first thing to know\, if you want to know about Propagandhi\, is that they came here to rock. Right\nfrom the snarling opening riff of their seventh album\, Victory Lap\, that much is clear. For everything else\nthat swirls around the band now\, and for the last 31 years — the politics\, the people and\, lately\, a\ngnawing sense of despair — the sheer volume of it all hasn’t changed.\nSo even though Victory Lap was written while the world spun into darkness — we’ll get to that in a\nmoment — this record is still made to put feet in the pit and fists in the air. Or\, as frontman Chris\nHannah sings on “Tartuffle\,” Victory Lap’s penultimate track: “We came here to rock. Single moms to\nthe front. Deadbeat dads to the rear. That’s how we do it here.” In that moment\, Victory Lap finds\nPropagandhi close to how they began: a ferocious band from a wind-battered Canadian prairie\,\nthrashing out jams in a city erected on stolen Indigenous land.\nOf course\, much is different about them\, too. It’s been five years since the band unleashed their\nsweeping sixth record\, Failed States. In sonic ways\, Victory Lap is a natural successor to that record; for\none\, it was recorded at the same cozy Private Ear studio in Winnipeg\, a comfortable jaunt from their\nhomes. But many things have happened since Failed States was made. Some people close to the band\nwere born; some people close to the band died. Not too long after the release of the last record\, bassist\nTodd Kowalski realized that\, despite years of pushing his voice into spine-rattling registers\, he’s actually\na natural baritone. (He takes voice lessons now\, to undo some of the damage he’d inflicted from singing\ntoo high.)\nThen there was the big change\, which explains why Victory Lap came out five years after its predecessor\,\ninstead of Propagandhi’s typical four. In the fall of 2015\, the band added a new member\, Sulynn Hago\, a\nseasoned guitar-slinger from Tampa\, Florida. Her arrival came on the heels of a departure: after nine\nyears with Propagandhi\, David “The Beaver” Guillas wisely elected to get a real job\, teaching the next\ngeneration instead of cramming their brains with jacked-up guitars. (That said\, he’s still all over Victory\nLap\, contributing licks to four songs.)\nIn the wake of his departure\, Propagandhi put out a call for audition tapes; they got over 400\, and\nHannah and Kowalski watched every one. Of those\, about 20 had the chops they were looking for. Of\nthose 20\, one stood out above the rest. Hago had the experience in the scene\, she’d slugged it out on\nthe road\, and — this is also important — her voice was as fearless as her fretboard fingers. “She’s the\nonly person who wrote to us\, and identified as a raging vegan Hispanic lesbian\,” Hannah says. “I was\nimmediately like\, ‘whoa\, let’s check this out.’”\nMeanwhile\, a refugee crisis was peaking\, unarmed Black men\, women and children were being\nmurdered by police\, and the carbon in the atmosphere kept right on heating. While Propagandhi was\nwriting Victory Lap\, a loud man called Mexican immigrants “rapists” and bragged about sexually\nassaulting women. Half a nation shrugged\, and elected him president. White supremacists started\ngetting glossy features in magazines\, and airtime on cable news.\nThis is a band that has always been fiercely political\, that never backed down from calls for justice. Yet\nthe events of 2016 still left them reeling\, facing a landscape in which fascism is\, among a certain crowd\,\nsuddenly trendy. “It hit me in a way I can’t really describe\,” Samolesky says. “I almost feel like I’m trying\nto reinvent purpose out of this change\, and the resurgence of the far right. How is this going to affect us\,\nwith what we do — and in the grander scale\, where is this heading?”\nAll of those travails find their way onto Victory Lap\, in ways both subtle and obvious. But there are\ndeeper questions on this record too: oh\, you know\, stuff like the meaning of this whole shebang we call\nlife. In 2016\, Kowalski’s father died; Samolesky lost his father only months later. In the wake of those\nlosses\, Kowalski wrote two songs for the record\, “Nigredo” and “When All Your Fears Collide.” Both\, he\nsays\, were written in “total darkness\,” and both wrestle with grief and existential depression. “The\nwhole time\, the whole year of making songs in my head is complete despair\,” Kowalski says. “It’s partly\nwhy I only have two songs on the record. I felt like I had to do that one (Nigredo) right.”\nOn the opposite end of the journey\, there was creation. Between touring on Failed States and starting\nwork on Victory Lap\, Hannah\, now 47\, welcomed his second child. It didn’t make playing in a rock’n’roll\nband any easier. “Seven years ago I used to get up\, and go straight to the guitar\,” Hannah says. “Now it’s\nstraight to making somebody’s lunch\, or making somebody’s breakfast. At the end of the day there was\nthat golden hour… of feeling creative. Well\, that’s gone. Now you’re getting attacked by two kids.”\nYet it is that experience of fatherhood that informs what could be Victory Lap’s most poignant track\, the\ncloser “Adventures in Zoochosis.” The instrumental riffs are more upbeat than the lyrics\, but in their\nrazor-sharp musings about coming to terms with life in modern society’s comfortable cages\, Hannah\nexpresses the hope of all parents: that there will be a better life\, a brighter life for their children.\nPerhaps that thought is an antidote of sorts\, to the grim haze that hangs over the world these days.\nPerhaps we all need someone we love fiercely enough\, to keep trying. “Something I struggle with now is\nthat I think it’s all over\,” Hannah says. “That anything short of the destruction of civilization is just\nrearranging of the deck chairs on the Titanic. It’s the elephant in the room. You cannot have what we\nhave\, and expect it to go on into the future.”\nSo what do you do\, when you’re an unapologetically political band in a time when political speech\nseems more fractured than it has been in years? When the darkness looms and the rapacious maws of\npower seem to devour more by the day? You can’t stop the violence; you can’t save the world. But\nneither can you stand to sit back\, and just watch it all burn. So here’s what you do: you strap up a guitar\nand get ready to rock. Single moms to the front; deadbeat dads to the rear. This is still Propagandhi\nwe’re talking about\, and that’s how we do it here.
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