An appropriate split for the times: Final Cop (German Army/Peter Kris)
and Cop Funeral (Josh Tabbia) have joined forces via shared moniker noun and
shared penchant for sonic destruction to superheat the establishment until it
boils and expands like a bubble, bursting outward in a grimy gust of withering
stench. Such is the rot at the heart of said establishment! But hey, I’m not
here to get too political …
Look, you’re not going to listen to Final Cop or Cop Funeral for the
nonpolitical aspects of it, so strap in bucko, or else you’re liable to get
whiplash, or maybe hurtle through the windshield, as this automobile of sound
and fury spins out of control. And there won’t be anyone to protect and serve
you either! Final Cop does what you expect, dismantling the concept of
industrial/electronic/noise and causing it to collapse around samples and synthesizers.
There is an amazing track called “Solving Homeless with a Hammer” that
encapsulates the cleansing burn society needs by way of blistering magmic synths
walls. Final Cop: the authority every neighborhood needs.
Or also maybe Cop Funeral. The Already Dead head Tabbia mixes oily
gristle in ProTools and places his laptop strategically atop a lit stove. These
are all things that you should not do to oil, or gristle, or ProTools, but the
results are fabulous. As Tabbia is known to do as Cop Funeral, he conjures
heaving wastelands of utter despair and joylessness and somehow whirls them
into a force of formless rage, a cloud of unrequited spirits back to avenge the
wrongs done to them. Spotlight track: “I Tried and It Sucked,” a behemoth of
disappointment, something we can all relate to these days.
True to form, Final Cop and Cop Funeral are donating all proceeds from
this release to CHIRLA, the LA-based Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights,
which works “to advance human and civil rights of immigrants and refugees.” Because
shouldn’t we just help people, right? Watch out for each other, pick each other
up when we’re down, or maybe ensure that the most vulnerable among us aren’t helplessly
ground up in the jaws of the machine?
https://germanarmymusic.bandcamp.com/
https://copfuneral.bandcamp.com/
https://alreadydeadtapes.bandcamp.com/
--Ryan
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