First Impression: Pillowsnake - COPAGANDA (ft. I Killed Techno)
The movement to burn the rug that the issues of race and policing keep getting swept under has inspired two of the Rio Grande Valley’s biggest noisemakers to add more fuel to that fire. Even through the musical madness, the meaning of the indiscernible lyrics are clear: the warmhearted portrayals of police won’t distract us anymore. There’s the power that police are granted (“I could make sure to end your life on a whim,”) and the disproportionate response we’re fed when that power is abused (“Just take a pic with playing children, never redefined.”)
Every element of the song brings a sense of urgency: the harsh trip-hop beat, the icy bells, the paranoid string-synth, and especially the flickering notes that ascend like a sci-fi cannon charging up. Pillowsnake plays a belittling officer with his defiant drawl before a war cry from I Killed Techno fights back. The industrial-rock tinkering and surreal grooves can bring to mind Portishead, Gorillaz, and Nine Inch Nails, but these two musicians embody the Zeitgeist like no one else can.
Listen to “Copaganda” below
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