FINAL COP/COP FUNERAL “Final Cop/Cop Funeral” (Already Dead)

 

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

FINAL COP “A Structure of Violence” (Clan Destine)

Among the misfits littering Glasgow label Clan Destine’s catalog, Final Cop fits right in. The German Army side project makes negative music that sounds like the visible representation of the j-card cover’s gun- and knife-wielding everypunk: blackened, false-color rhythmic lurches toward an insignificant target that you gave everything to try to take down. Misplaced anger begets misplaced chaos. You haven’t really thought this through.

A Structure of Violence is here to help you get back on track, to center you on a path toward productive disruption. It’s like harsh industrial manifesto that gets in between your ears and agitates you until you feel like you’ve been shaken by factory-grade canning machine or something. Then it fills you with dread – dread for the future, dread for yourself, dread for your soul. Blistered in infernal forges, the death-electro tracks on A Structure of Violence are coated in crust and seared to indigestible ash. It’s an appropriate sound for an appropriate motivation.

But that’s just it – the fruits of violence are like crust and ash filling your mouth till you choke on that anger and that desperation. Is whatever’s left worth fighting for?

Let’s put down the gun and the sword and figure out a real way to make a difference. That still doesn’t mean you can’t rile yourself up from time to time with a little bit of Final Cop action.

https://germanarmymusic.bandcamp.com/

https://clandestinerecords.bandcamp.com/

--Ryan

FINAL COP "Thin the Blue Line" C26 (Split Banana Records)

Final Cop shares the same grim, industrial genetics as German Army, but eschews all of that namby-pamby, reflective/meditative stuff and worldly wisdom and focuses instead on working out the frustrations and ineffectuality that comes from suffering through a hard, city livin’.

For a GeAr ReLaTiVe, these songs come off like a (rightfully) jaded early 20s streetpunk testing the murky waters of self-medication and organized crime. Sounds like it might not pull one out of a bad mood so much as help cook up plans for revenge.

https://splitbananarecords.bandcamp.com/album/final-cop-thin-the-blue-line
and
https://germanarmymusic.bandcamp.com/

-- Jacob An Kittenplan