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Is The Future Of Everything

by Anti-Social Music

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(adapted from "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson)
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(adapted from "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72" by Hunter S. Thompson)
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(adapted from "Nightmare in La-La Land" by Hunter S. Thompson)
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(adapted from "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72" by Hunter S. Thompson)
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(adapted from "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72" by Hunter S. Thompson)
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("Football Season is Over" by Hunter S. Thompson)

about

The NYC new-music collective Anti-Social Music's debut record, "Sings The Great American Songbook," was received as everything from "punk's next breath" (Real Detroit Weekly) to "nearly unlistenable" (Pitchfork). Never ones to take a hint, the incorrigible gang celebrates its 10th anniversary year with "Anti-Social Music Is The Future Of Everything," a state-of-the-union grab bag that restates ASM's whiskey-soaked and combat-booted commitment to new chamber music as the last bastion of socially unacceptable sounds. Produced in part by group founder Franz Nicolay, the album finds room for processed water droplets, triangle-driven bastard ragtime, a rec-room mass, the aptly-named "grunt work for the avant-garde," and a nihilistic setting of Hunter S. Thompson's suicide note. With artwork by Vice Magazine's Nicholas Gazin, Anti-Social Music reminds you that things are bad, they're likely to get worse, and that string quartet on the deck of the Titanic probably wasn't all that in-tune either.

"An ever-changing collective whose sole mission is to keep new music alive, Anti-Social Music has been making some of the most vital albums of the last decade. When I say new music, I mean new music. This isn't rock. It isn't even avant garde (though one of the suites has the fabulous title 'Grunt Work for the Avant Garde'). No, this stuff is completely new. The works borrow from almost every tradition imaginable, and each one charts new territory. Simply put, you've never heard stuff like this. There are those who are put off by such effrontery. I understand, but I cannot sympathize. Anti-Social Music doesn't play this stuff because it's weird. This music is on this album because of its essential power. I'm not much for labels, and neither are these folks. That might be why I like them so much. Or, just maybe, ASM is the future of everything." - AIDING AND ABETTING

"Don’t let the name fool you: Anti-Social Music specializes in the sort of left-field musical collaborations that, in retrospect, seem blindingly -- and welcomingly -- obvious. there are unexpected pleasures to be heard on this album: passages both seductive and challenging; marriages of attitude and aptitude that soar." - DUSTED

credits

released April 19, 2011

partial funding for this recording has been provided by the amazing folks at the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust.
Special thanks to Anita Thompson, Jessica Pavone, and Peacock Recordings.

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