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м​я​т​е​ж / Samarra Split

by Samarra

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1.
DREW: speak to me! i'm a person, speak to me can't you at least give me that courtesy? consistently failing your standards of beauty arbitrarily denied my humanity i just need to pee i don't mean to freak it's just that leaving the house is scary enough for me what i need is a chance to breathe but it's hard to think clearly in the grip of poverty WILL: you dream of division where it doesn't exist at the edges of breath, letting go of disposition conditioned to ignore individual chemistries too scattered to ever feel aligned with any notions of flesh [I wrote this song about being told by a business where I was doing low-wage retail work--it was indeed a Walmart--that I could no longer use the bathroom in their store because customers were complaining about seeing me in there. The simultaneous humiliation of being pushed into the margins of the economy and treated like I'm unfit to use basic facilities are pretty much a daily experience for most working-class trans women, and so far I've been no exception. --Drew]
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DREW: do you really have that much invested in believing everything is perfect just the way it is? ignore problems within your homogenous social group so you can tell yourself you're changing the world which somehow still remains the same defend your complacency with your life how punk rock is that? WILL: "mission accomplished" mentality toxic normative apathy rework these imbalances start with yourself, then flood all else arrogance dries out the well [Written after an argument in which I defended the necessity of safer spaces within DIY culture and someone told me that such safety should already be implied due to punk's progressive politics--which is much easier to assume when you're a cis white dude. Ask anyone in the scene who isn't one, they'll tell you. --Drew]
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WILL: privileged rhetoric ignorance perpetuated continued offenses congeal into malign some never stop to think not all language is at their disposal oppression is packaged and sold as humor from the internet and television watch your tongue it licks the filthy feet of a white america vernacular has suffered greatly in such an era of such shameless exceptionalism DREW: screaming hurtful words into the faces of the downtrodden heaping abuse on shoulders with the least strength to bear them is it your comfortable life that leaves you so numb to the suffering of others? watch your tongue your words arm the guns at the heads of the oppressed [This song is about appropriative use of AAVE by white people on social media and in film and television. Sentiments coated in "irony" are just as racist as anything else. - Will]

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Split with мятеж from Portland / New Zealand / Canada. Listen to their side here: themrtexrebellion.bandcamp.com/album/split-samarra

Cassettes available from Zegema Beach Records: www.zegemabeachrecords.com/zegema-beach-releases/mrtex-samarra

SAMARRA is
Drew - bass, vocals
Mitchie - guitar, vocals
Benson - guitar, vocals
Will - drums, vocals

Recorded in May 2017 by Thom Carney.
Photo and layout by David Norman and Jesse Stratton.

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released November 1, 2017

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