What happens when you combine talent from The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Get Up Kids, Braid, Protest The Hero, The Callous Daoboys, American Football and many others?
You get Plutocracy Planet.
Led by former Alarm Magazine editor, Scott Morrow, Plutocracy Planet is an experimental sociopolitical super-collective that was born out of the pandemic shutdown and the ill wills of society.
Throwing everything but the kitchen sink into the mix (and they may be even throwing that in, who knows), Plutocracy Planet is blending genres like no other. Blending post-hardcore with diverse instruments and vocalists from various genres, this collaborative project explores atypical rhythms and electronic elements.
The project’s debut LP will delve into themes of greed, inequality, money in politics, the cult of personality, fear-mongering media, police brutality, toxic masculinity, religious zealotry, factory farming, the billionaire space race, and the singularity, featuring a coalition of lyrical voices.
Ahead of the album’s release, Plutocracy Planet’s debut single, “The Very Severity” features the legendary Bob Nanna (Braid, Hey Mercedes, The City on Film) and in the video, Bob portrays a news anchor on the brink of a breakdown.
On the song and video, Bob says,
“I was overjoyed to be asked to contribute to the record as I usually don’t dabble in this genre or subject matter too much, and now I think I should way more often. Being able to collaborate on cool, important projects is something that brings me great joy, so being a part of this record was a tremendous pleasure. Please disregard my lack of dress pants in the video.”
Bob is not alone in “This Very Severity”. He is joined by guitarist Jason Schimmel (Red Fiction, Estradasphere, Secret Chiefs 3) and bassist Jonathan Hischke (The Sound of Animals Fighting, Le Butcherettes, Hella, Anywhere).
On the album, mastermind Scott says,
“It’s unbelievable to me that I get to work with the people on this album. I’ve been a fan, in many cases a super fan, of many of them for 20 to 25 years. It’s a mind-blowing honor that they said yes, and I still don’t really know how the hell I convinced them.”
Produced by Mark Rose of Spitalfield, Plutocracy Planet’s debut will be out on July 12th and features:
- Bob Nanna (Braid, Hey Mercedes, Lifted Bells)
- Jonah Matranga (Far, Gratitude, onelinedrawing)
- Matt Pryor (The Get-Up Kids, The New Amsterdams, Radar State)
- Mike Kinsella (American Football, Owen, Cap’n Jazz)
- Liam Wilson (The Dillinger Escape Plan, Azusa)
- Rody Walker (Protest the Hero)
- Carson Pace (The Callous Daoboys)
- Emily Jane White
- Mark Rose (Spitalfield)
- Swamburger (Solillaquists of Sound)
- Blueprint (Soul Position, Greenhouse)
- Jørgen Munkeby (Shining)
- Carla Kihlstedt (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Tin Hat Trio, Rabbit Rabbit Radio)
- Nils Frykdahl (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Faun Fables, Idiot Flesh)
- Aaron Spectre (Drumcorps)
- Bruce Lamont (Yakuza, Masonic Wave)
- Angela Mullenhour (Sybris, Touched by Ghoul, Pink Frost)
- Anton Patzner (Emily Jane White, Foxtails Brigade, Judgement Day)
- Jonathan Hischke (The Sound of Animals Fighting, Le Butcherettes, Hella, Anywhere)
- Jason Schimmel (Secret Chiefs 3, Estradasphere, Red Fiction)
- Adam Stacey (Igorrr, Secret Chiefs 3, Estradasphere)
- Jason Zdora (HeWhoCorrupts)
- Leyla I. Royale (Chicago Street Strings)
Plutocracy Planet Tracklisting:
1. Prologue
2. This Very Severity (f. Bob Nanna)
3. But You Said (f. onelinedrawing)
4. A Simple Refrain (f. Matt Pryor & Swamburger)
5. Commence Mutation (f. Carson Pace)
6. Slaughterhouse Soliloquy (f. Swamburger & Drumcorps)
7. War? (f. Rody Walker)
8. True Crime (f. Angela Mullenhour)
9. Hours and Hours (Work Harder, Not Smarter) (f. Mark Rose)
10. Dance of the Downtrodden (f. Carla Kihlstedt, Nils Frykdahl & Jørgen Munkeby)
11. Remain Silent (f. Emily Jane White, Blueprint & Bruce Lamont)
12. Epilogue
