Degenerates is an anthology of songs based around the experience of living in environments that are shaped by toxicity. The album is about the natural human reactions that arise when dealing and living in cultures and environments that serve to put everyone on the wrong foot.
The conditions, norms, cultures, and traditions humans have created using degenerate mindsets have helped exacerbate the downfall of the land we stand on and accelerate our extinction as a species. We are a species that lusts over profit, power, and omnipotence above all things. Prejudice is flaunted as a proud currency. Exploitation is presented as the key to success. Authority is abused until nobody knows what real authority is. Responsibilities and common sense are eschewed in favor of recklessness, indifference, and hostility. Materialism has become a religion, complete with public stonings and coercion. Domination is the goal of life, as total power grants immunity to every degraded act that one wishes to keep doing. And so on.
With the desire to always be on top of one another, we simply fall apart. The foundation to our structure increasingly becomes inadequate, the bones that make up this skeleton of humanity increasingly become brittle. Degradation from the inside.
The end at humanity's own hands is inevitable at this point. But in the meantime, whatever we can do right, we try to do. Even if the world does not want you to do it. That is survival.
credits
released July 15, 2022
Production/Songwriting:
Dylan Amirio
Co-Production:
Yudhistira Abjani ("Blunt Force Trauma", "Tartarus", "Learn Nothing", "A Race to the Bottom")
Thank you to everyone involved in this journey:
Dito, Yuda, Iki, Rully, Pasha, Maham, Gasta, Siddha, Dio Nugroho, Dally, Satria Ramadhan.
Your help means the world and words cannot express my gratitude for your help, faith, and company.
Special Thanks to:
Tini Bohang: the anchor, heart, and soul to everything.
Orange Cliff Records & Winona Tapes, for the chance, faith, and blessing to put out this tape
All of my friends, who I can't really name one by one because it'll fill pages of paper, are always an unrelenting source of faith, determination and compassion.
and most of all, to the assholes on the roads, offices, news, social circles, and positions of power, who make this world a horrible place.
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