Creatures, by Plague Pits

Creatures

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12" Vinyl LP, limited to a hundred copies, pressed on opaque violet vinyl. Includes inlay with lyrics and artwork. Mastered for vinyl by Pete Burns (Kill Shelter).

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Cassette Bundle - "Poetry From The Future", "The Light" and "Creatures"
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Cassette Bundle! Includes the new "Creatures" cassette album and the last two cassette EPs "The Light" and "Poetry From The Future".

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1.	The Dignity of Serfdom 03:19	lyrics	buy track
While waiting in the breadline/ to collect your crumbs/ give thanks to the master/ whose table they dropped from/ the dignity of serfdom/ the comfort of the whip/ the dignity of serfdom/ their boot upon your neck.
2.	Magdalene 03:36	lyrics	buy track
Pound and scrub/ until your fingers bleed/ and the bleach burns your broken hands/ purify the past/ purify your soul/ and a slap in the face to help your faith/ rinse and squeeze/ on your knees/ St. Mary Magdalene
3.	Ghost Acreage 04:06	lyrics	buy track
The ghosts in the machine/ move the pistons/ turn the wheels/ in your factory farms/ and your laboratories/ and your bitcoin mining companies/ these bones keep the furnaces burning/ keep the pistons moving and the wheels turning/ you're living off the ghost acreage/ you're living on borrowed time/ .../ these bones/ keep the furnaces burning/.../ the ghosts in the machine/ move the pistons/ turn the wheels/ in your warehouses/ and penitentaries/ and your off-shore finance industries/ these bones keep the furnaces burning/ keep the pistons moving and the wheels turning.
4.	Polyethylène 02:55		buy track
5.	Like Drowning 03:48	lyrics	buy track
There's no ground to stand on/ it's shifting like sand/ each day like the last one/ just one inch ahead/ just like drowning/.../ it feels/ just like drowning/.../ the more that you struggle/ the more it pulls you down/ each day like the last one/ it feels like/ just like drowning/.../ it feels/ just like drowning.
6.	Beasts of the Field 04:23	lyrics	buy track
Like all/ like all things living/ your body/ will wither away/ there's no/ there's no dominion/ ALL CREATURES/ SUFFER THE SAME/.../ and the beasts of the forest/ and the beasts of the field.
7.	01001010010 03:07		buy track
8.	Lights out for the Territory 09:31		buy track

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“While waiting in the bread line/to collect your crumbs/Give thanks to the master/Whose table they fall from” is the first lyrical couplet on Plague Pits’ Creatures, the words delivered wryly against a throwback synthpop instrumental. That track, “The Dignity of Serfdom”, is a pretty clear mission statement from the Swiss collective, encapsulating both the political and social perspectives that define the record lyrically, and the classic synth stylings of its instrumentation.

There’s a careful balance at play here, one that the record’s success hinges upon: trading on inherently nostalgic musical ideas and sounds, without having them overshadow the actual material. Plague Pits’ approach is to keep things fluid and not drink too deeply from any specific well of inspiration. While the aforementioned “The Dignity of Serfdom” and “Beasts of the Field” put me in mind of The Human League pre-Dare with their snappy drum programming and nice clean mix, there’s a distinctly more punky energy at play on the manic Normal-esque “Like Drowning”. They even nod to genre forebearers on instrumentals “Polyethylene” and “Lights Out for the Territory”, which are possessed of the dignified and wistful air of the earliest strains of electronic pop.

Interestingly, you can easily see the way in which the album’s thematics – urban and techological alienation, social and religious hypocrisy – feel both appropriate to the retro-flavour of the record and relevant to the current political climate. You could easily be forgiven for assuming “Ghost Acreage”‘s screed against the dehumanizing nature of labour in a capitalist society hailed from Thatcherite Britain, but the warehouses it invokes could just as easily belong to Amazon. In that same way, there’s a timelessness to the mock piety with which “Magadalene” makes its point about coded ideas of ‘purity’ and its use as a means of control that is depressingly easy to relate to current conservative political movements. Hell, “01001010010” uses a sample of a reading from “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” in lieu of any original lyrics, pinpointing that story’s prescient view of our relationship with technology in ways that feel pointed in a way the toothless satire of Black Mirror can only dream of."
- Alex Kennedy, I DIE : YOU DIE -

"Plague Pits is a collective from Bern, Switzerland. Inspired by the D.I.Y. electronic tape underground of yore, they play disco dirges for the Anthropocene – cold wave for a heating planet. On the superb ‘Ghost Acreage’ the lead track from their new album Creatures due at the end of this month, they retool the sounds of early Human League, Kraftwerk and Devo for 2023, with a evocative and inventive tapestry of zig zagging synth pop, and deadpan vocals. There’s a mechanical desolate atmosphere created by the vivid imagery that speaks of the pistons and furnaces of machinery and business, the greedy need for growth and production that continues endlessly regardless of the human sacrifices to power it." - GOD IS IN THE TV -

"The first preview, “The Dignity of Serfdom”, aptly represents the Swiss band’s distinctive crackling vibrant mishmash of Electro-Wave, Industrial and Post-punk, The Neon Judgement and Fad Gadget come to mind, with a clattering and bouncy interaction of crashing beats, jarring throbbing low ends, sprawling glaring synth drifts along with tinkling swirling chords, to create a buzzing and flickering desolate cacophony over a resigned emotional looping vocal interplay, left depressed under a murky hollowing heavy rhythmic weight, dense of relentless oppressive pain." - Fabrizio Lusso, WHITE LIGHT // WHITE HEAT -

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released September 30, 2023

Conceived and recorded over a span of six months in early 2022. Released on TRANSNECROPOLITAN as a digital, limited cassette and limited vinyl album. The vinyl LP is up for preorder now and will arrive in early 2024.

The LP version has been mastered for vinyl by Pete Burns (Kill Shelter).

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Plague Pits is a collective from Bern, Switzerland. Inspired by the D.I.Y. electronic tape underground of yore, they play disco dirges for the Anthropocene – cold wave for a heating planet.

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