The World Will Decide

by Negativland

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1.	Unlawful Assembly 01:22	buy track
2.	Content 03:55	buy track
3.	Before I Ask 05:17	buy track
4.	Why Are We Waiting 00:41	buy track
5.	Create The Visitor 04:51	buy track
6.	We Can Really Feel Like We're Here 03:21	buy track
7.	More Data 05:40	buy track
8.	I Didn't Know I Was Dead 01:33	buy track
9.	Failure 04:28	buy track
10.	Don't Don't Get Freaked Out 04:18	buy track
11.	Anything Else 02:21	buy track
12.	Attractive Target 08:33	buy track
13.	Open Your Mouth 04:00	buy track
14.	Incomprehensible Solution 05:53	buy track
15.	The World Will Decide 07:30	buy track

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The mirror image sequel to last year’s True False, The World Will Decide turns the focus away from our very human inability to accurately define reality, and towards the technologies attempting to do a better job at it. But if sorting true from false seemed like a full time job back when all we had to keep track of was our own minds, life alongside the machines built to connect us only seems to multiply the uncertainties. On this album those uncertainties are made almost deliriously danceable: a netweb of densely sampled voices melting speech back down into music and back again, into what we can all agree are the real questions Did that firefly really land on your finger? Is your food online? Does this app connect you to people, or replace them? Who owns your replica, and why are humans the ones now failing the Turing test? What’s entertaining about survival?

David Wills aka The Weatherman, one of the living members of Negativland’s current lineup, returns as the lead vocalist on four more songs — including an extended argument with his own phone, as it repeatedly refuses to tell him whether or not it’s safe to go outside. Is it even possible to define electro-magnetic harassment? Am I a low risk person? Is it ok if I just attend this protest in VR? Is fear porn patriotic? Is this a real sequence of musical notes? How does this app use my thermal image to measure your honesty? Do people have to die?

Download comes with 26 page PDF containing complete album packaging and lyric sheet.

credits

released November 13, 2020

For this project Negativland is / was:
Ian Allen, Peter Conheim, Mark Hosler, Don Joyce, Jon Leidecker, Richard Lyons, and David Wills

Prairie Prince: drums on Before I Ask, Failure, The World Will Decide
Thomas Dimuzio: electronics on Content, electromagnetic cell phone recording on The World Will Decide
Kristin Erickson: Alexa Skills Set wrangling on Before I Ask
Steev Hise: backing vocals and guitar noise on Before I Ask
Nava Dunkleman: percussion on We Can Really Feel Like We’re Here
Ava Mendoza: guitar solos on Failure
Steve Fisk: wish tape on Failure
Drew Daniel: sequencing on Anything Else, Attractive Target
Kyle Bruckmann: oboe on Anything Else
Star St. Germain, Jackie Gratz, Kris Force: strings on Anything Else
M.C. Schmidt: prepared piano on Attractive Target, baking tin on Incomprehensible Solution
Jem Doulton: percussion on Incomprehensible Solution
Erich Hubner: bass on The World Will Decide

Cover design: Negativland and Dan Lynch
Cover and digital booklet paintings: Dan Lynch
Mastering: Thomas Dimuzio
PDF formatting for album packaging: jenbenmedia
Lacquer Cut: John Golden
Piano recording/engineering: Brett Allen at SnowGhost Studios

Thanks to: Taylor Jessen, jenbenmedia, Steev Hise, Sue-C, Matmos, Sophia Poirier, Andre’ Cholmondeley, Bisbee Central School Project, Kevin Slagle, the guest musicians, and everyone we sampled

N© and N℗ 2019 & 2020 by Negativland and Seeland MediaMedia

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