View basket “Brutality And Bloodshed For All” has been added to your basket. Introduction to Escape-ism Escape-ism SKU: MRG613LP Barcode: 673855061313 17.00 £17.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Merge Released Date: 24th November 2017 Buying Format: 1LP Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Introduction to Escape-ism by Escape-ism isn’t a typical record. Oh, sure, it looks like one, with a label in the center and mysterious grooves etched on a sleek, black disc that glints in the light with a perverse air of knowing treachery. And sure, when a diamond needle is dragged through said groove, it shrieks and sputters with the familiar range of “rock ’n’ roll” sound effects: low-frequency bass, high-end hi-hat stutters, and a middlebrow voice that gasps and cries for love, justice, redemption, insurrection, everything. And yes, Introduction… reacts like a normal record to direct sunlight; it suffers silently until giving evidence of its agony with an awful “warp.” Its cover is even like a normal record jacket: glossy cardstock with a cool design, group name, song titles, record label information, and the like. But this disc is different. It shouldn’t only be reviewed in the music press but in the “world affairs” column of a conspiracy-minded newspaper, on a hot-rod review TV show, or possibly at an important conference by a renowned astrophysicist. It’s that important! Why? Because it’s the first “solo” record by Ian Svenonius—of groups The Make-Up, Chain & the Gang, XYZ, Weird War, etc. and author of underground bestsellers such as The Psychic Soviet, Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ’n’ Roll Group, and Censorship Now!!—and as such, it’s profound, prophetic, perverse, and poetic… It’s introverted glitter, violence against the state, obsessive desire; it stomps on convention, shreds constitutions, clobbers pre-conceived notions of what a record can be. Yes, that’s right: a single-person performance by I F Svenonius—recognized by Performer Magazine as the “greatest performer on the planet”—Introduction to Escapeism is a bite into a one-banana bunch. A drum box, a guitar, a cassette player, and a single slobbering, sinful voice singing out… for a way out. Live, it’s a new paradigm of performance: raw, gestural, idiotic, sublime, revolutionary, poetic, faux naïf, unknowing, a drainage pipe that leads to who knows where. Escape-ism’s Introduction to Escape-ism isn’t just the soundtrack for a late-night drive on a lonely interstate, or a platter played to incite abandon at a pajama party with one’s pals. It’s also a tunnel to tomorrow. It’s a mineshaft to the motherlode. Artist Escape-ism Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Merge Buying Options 1LP Includes Download Code Format 1LP , Includes Download Code Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings SIDE A: Walking in the Dark Lonely at the Top Rome Wasn’t Burnt in a Day Iron Curtain SIDE B: Almost No One (Can Have My Love) They Took the Waves The Stars Get in the Way I Don’t Remember You Crime Wave Rock Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Escape-ism and more from Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo View Product Quick View Escape-ism The Lost Record Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Merge Records | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 7th September 2018 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Escape-ism The Lost Record £18.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Merge Records SKU: MRG639LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 7th September 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Escape-ism The Lost Record – Indies Only Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Merge Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 7th September 2018 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Escape-ism The Lost Record – Indies Only £21.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Merge Records SKU: MRG639LPC1 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 7th September 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Escape-ism Introduction to Escape-ism Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Merge | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 24th November 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Escape-ism Introduction to Escape-ism £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Merge SKU: MRG613LPC1 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 24th November 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Pure X Crawling Up The Stairs Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Fire Talk Records | 180g, 1LP Released 3rd July 2020 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Pure X Crawling Up The Stairs £23.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Fire Talk Records SKU: LPFTK162 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 3rd July 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Human Interest Empathy Lives In Outer Space Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Nice Swan Recordings | 12", Coloured Vinyl, EP/Mini Album Released 15th December 2023 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Human Interest Empathy Lives In Outer Space £16.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Nice Swan Recordings SKU: NSWN078 Formats: 12", Coloured Vinyl, EP/Mini Album Released Date: 15th December 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Off With Their Heads Be Good Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Epitaph | 1LP Released 16th August 2019 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Off With Their Heads Be Good £18.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Epitaph SKU: 8714092770414 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 16th August 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Mogwai Happy Songs For Happy People Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | PIAS | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 3rd November 2023 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mogwai Happy Songs For Happy People £22.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: PIAS SKU: PIASX035LPX Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 3rd November 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Tacocat This Mess Is a Place – Loser Edition Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Sub Pop | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 3rd May 2019 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Tacocat This Mess Is a Place – Loser Edition £22.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Sub Pop SKU: SP1285X Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 3rd May 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Deerhoof Future Teenage Cave Artists Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Joyful Noise Recordings | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 29th May 2020 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Deerhoof Future Teenage Cave Artists £23.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Joyful Noise Recordings SKU: JNR331LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 29th May 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Dangerous Summer, The Coming Home Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Rude Records | 1LP Released 7th April 2023 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dangerous Summer, The Coming Home £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Rude Records SKU: RDR2741 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 7th April 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Green Day Tre! 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