Soundtracks To Accompany Demise

by Pork

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1.	While Listening To Corpse Of Christ 05:42		buy track
2.	While Stepping In Front Of A Bus 03:42		buy track
3.	While Watching Television And Contemplating Mrs Slocombe Stroking Her Pussy 04:58		buy track
4.	While Jumping From The Roof Of Your Office Building 04:47		buy track
5.	While Wrapping Your Car At High Speed Around A Big Fucking Tree 03:42		buy track
6.	While Falling From A Ladder Supposedly Being Held By Your Spouse 02:51		buy track
7.	While Scratching Your Fat Fucking Arse 02:21		buy track
8.	While On An Abusive Rant 05:00		buy track
9.	While Dying From Thallium Poisoning Mistakenly Administered By Russians 03:57		buy track
10.	While Killing Time Waiting For A Bounce To Finish 04:59		buy track
11.	While Listening To A Defunct Band's Bullshit Album 10:02		buy track
12.	While Running To Kick A Dog Defecating On Your Precious Fucking Lawn 03:40		buy track
13.	While Considering The Use Of While Vs Whilst 06:19		buy track
14.	While Naked In The Bath Having Just Slit Your Wrists 06:04		buy track
15.	While Taking An Intense Crap Causing An Aneurysm 02:08		buy track
16.	While Butchering Bach To Make An Uninformed Point 22:19	info	buy track

about

Influenced by the German philosopher Theodor Adorno and, to a lesser extent, the English philosopher Sir Roger Scruton, this album is confirmation of the view that music has been in a long slow decline for centuries, to the point that the majority of music made today is perfunctory and frivilous. So much so, the logical conclusion can then be drawn that the music of Pork is just as a valid, just as relevant, as John Coltrane, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Jay-Z, Drake ... anyone held in regard in popular culture.

For Adorno, popular culture is just cheap, bad art, easily produced by just about anyone because of its simplistic repetition and its general disregard for music as an art form. Scruton explains Adorno's view of music becoming a lost art was because of '... the cheapening of the language - things that used to be profound and moving have become cliches ... and the music ... gets put together from pieces taken from the supermarket shelf and arranged anyhow ...' Scruton argues that there are whole areas of musical experience that are not particular important and exist merely as distraction rather than art that demands attention. He considers symphony music to have been on a long decline since the time of Brahms. Little wonder then that he dismisses the work of popular culture music icons, that critics within that strange universe treat so seriously, as being frivilous and unimportant.

This album takes on that supermarket shelf approach to making music by stealing as much as possible in the form of loops and samples, while the 'played' elements are simplistic, repetitive and casually played. It is a difficult listen, but we would argue just as difficult to listen to as The Beatles 'White Album' ... certainly just as valid.

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released June 24, 2019

Pork is:

Peter Schreck (Booth) - Korg MS-10 Synthesizer
Paul Salt (Newsome) - Guitar, Bass, Loops, Samples, Korg

Fretless Bass on 'While Butchering Bach ...' provided by Lord AW Milner

Cover photo by Cal Crilly

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