The Call of The Epigon

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The impulse is to simply and make it overtly clear that you need something off your chest. Find your favorite chord, then make a "T" on the fretboard. No one is listening. Why try anymore? Safety brings complacency, nihilism, and apathy. Talent gives to tragedy when you cut the technicalities. Week after week, we practice three-chord songs, and simple chants for song-alongs for seven friends who don't keep track and old barflies who'd rather see a funky jazz band. From Queens to Hermosa Beach we write the same songs on repeat, and underscore the notion of being free while waxing nostalgic in major key. But that New Noise, it never came. Supplanted by a conquest for fortune and fame, and all that strange to tame.

"Hope, perseverance, a vision (some doubt). Green ink, a 26 oz., a bad case of big-mouth. A sum of our parts and I've never laughed harder."
-Propagandhi

Drown out what you've heard before. Displace your heroes and ask for more. The point is lost and the fans are bored.

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from Infested, released September 30, 2022
Written by Russ Worstell and Rob Lanterman

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