Due for Release on 17th November via Meat Machine Records
Std Black LP / Ltd Dinked Edition LP
Dinked Edition #263 features:
- 180g red on black splatter vinyl
- Glossy fold out poster
- Band logo sticker
- Unique Obi-Strip
- Limited pressing of 300
Mock Media’s debut LP ‘Mock Media II’ captures this firebrand four piece’s head-on plunge into enthralling existential contradictions: songs that explore the darkest corners of humanity, yet come out at the other end with the unwavering joy that marked their genesis. It’s an album of sneaky eclecticism: the high-wired punk rock stylings serve as Mock Media’s framework to clad their agog explorations into pop, electronic and world folk music.
Mock Media, Canada’s new supergroup, contains members: Evan Aasen, Garnet Aronyk Muhammad, Austin Boylan and Bennett Smith. Mock Media originates in Vernon, British Columbia, a small farming town surrounded by blue lakes and majestic mountain ranges. Such wholesome beginnings naturally sparked a heady wanderlust and DIY-spirit within its founding members.
The album’s connective tissue is a knack for crafty, tongue-in-cheek pop melodies and the kind of plucky storytelling that chronicles the greater complexities of life – chapters where strife and survival are usually rife. The R&B-inflected “Louis wont break”, for example, references Laura Hillenbrand's novel Unbroken, which tells the story of Louis Zamperini, a former Olympic track star turned fighter pilot who spent 47 days on a raft at sea and two and a half years in a Japanese POW camp.
Lead single “Madness” confidently vaults from skittish noise punk into a zany country rock anthem, the stylistic choices mediating a greater narrative on the threshold between order and chaos: “What if you struggled to feed yourself / Would you take it from somebody else?”. “It's just looking at human history,” Aasen comments. “Because it’s been so terrible in a lot of ways. How civilized we normally are, it just takes the drop of a coin and it can turn into something real bad. And we're always kind of teetering on the edge of that. People in their own lives too: you can hit rock bottom pretty quickly, but you can also persevere.”
Speaking for themselves, the weight of life, and its many detours and deviations, hasn’t deterred Mock Media from engaging in more misadventures together, the tumultuous kind that comes with the territory when performing in a band. It’s the requisite honeymoon phase prolonged by bad weather, or a beam of light emerging from a dark prism. To spread one's wings, the gravity below needs to be reckoned with.
Tracklist
1. ILL
2. LOUIS WONT BREAK
3. FATHER OF THAT CRIME
4. RAMBO
5. MODERN VISIONS
6. MADNESS
7. REASON
8. TOUCH THE GROUND
9. GET ON THE SHIP
10. THE WEIGHT IS ON