{"product_id":"chain-the-gang-down-with-liberty-up-with-chains-lp","title":"Chain \u0026 The Gang - Down With Liberty... Up With Chains (LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSealed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChain \u0026amp; The Gang's debut album originally released on K Records in 2009. This is the 2021 release from Sounds of Subterrania.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The 2009 debut album from the chain gang led by Ian Svenonius (Nation of Ulysses, Make-Up, Weird War) is a masterpiece of primitivism. From dazzling set pieces of R'n'B and rock’n’roll, the band forms highly melodic songs full of call-and-response chants (“What Is A Dollar”), or invites you to take a walk through the cemetery (“Cemetry Map”), which sounds so spooky as if voodoo master Dr. John had thought it up. Sometimes Svenonius just grabs a wooden guitar to make fun of conspiracy theories like in “Deathbed Confessions”: “I faked the moon landing, I saved Hitler’s brain. Yeah, it’s in Argentina but it controls the USA.” Calvin Johnson produced the album at his Dub Narcotic studio and also did a bit of background vocals. The beat lurches and sways as confidently and surely as an old sea dog’s gait in a breeze of doppelkorn. The somewhat odd album title is explained by the always conceptually thinking singer as follows: “Everywhere freedom goes, it leaves a path of destruction. Fast food, bad architecture, materialism, unbridled greed, destroyed environment, imperial conquests, class struggle; combined, these phenomena are seemingly synonymous with freedom.” When big words often hide only capitalist greed and imperialist war, Svenonius and Co. prefer to slip into the role of dissidents.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSide One\u003cbr\u003e1 Chain Gang Theme (I See Progress) (2:41)\u003cbr\u003e2 Cemetery Map (4:29)\u003cbr\u003e3 Trash Talk (3:00)\u003cbr\u003e4 Reparations (2:56)\u003cbr\u003e5 What Is A Dollar? (3:48)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSide Two\u003cbr\u003e1 Interview With The Chain Gang (2:59)\u003cbr\u003e2 Deathbed Confession (5:25)\u003cbr\u003e3 Room 19 (3:23)\u003cbr\u003e4 (Lookin' For A) Cave Girl (3:35)\u003cbr\u003e5 Unpronounceable Name (3:54)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SecCan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67636112654470,"sku":"SOS 200","price":24.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0088\/2959\/9806\/files\/chain-and-the-gang-down-withliberty-lp.jpg?v=1791491270","url":"https:\/\/www.parasolrecords.com\/products\/chain-the-gang-down-with-liberty-up-with-chains-lp","provider":"Parasol Mail Order","version":"1.0","type":"link"}