“Beneath the sound of the whole world coming apart, we’re the creak of a door in the dark, the cough of a gear getting stuck, the sigh of us all giving up,” say Michigan punks Braideveins on their Facebook profile. It’s a somewhat ominous insight into the supergroup of sorts, featuring members and former members of The Swellers, Kid Brother Collective and Empty Orchestra.
In-keeping with their ethos, the band have unveiled ‘Unspeakable, Unthinkable’, a commentary on the dangers of nationalism.
“First of all, fuck Columbus Day. We didn’t necessarily choose to premiere a track from our forthcoming album on the most perverse and violent of ‘holidays,’ but it might be appropriate nonetheless,” Frontman Stephen Wisniewski tells Substream Magazine in a lengthy statement.
“Because the thing is that we wrote an album that was thematically dystopian science fiction: an elite class of increasingly wealthy and powerful people find a cure for death and keep it to themselves, while the poor suffer and die around them. Unintended consequences rear their heads, as will often happen—labor and and resource shortages; medical disasters; all kinds of violence.”
“But it’s also an album that’s rooted in real politics, and the result of lots of thought experiments about the logical extensions of capitalism. Thematically, it’s anti-capitalist, anti-violence, and radical in the sense that it is literally concerned with the roots and fundamental causes of inequality.”
The self-titled debut full-length by Braidedveins is due on the 20th November 2015, and is available to pre-order now.