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Medication for the Misinformed

by Mindless Faith

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Gabriel Abney Call me a convert! This album is just killer. If I had to make a comparison I might say KMFDM meets Skinny Puppy, or Numb but I don't know if comparisons do these guys justice. Raw and engaging. It's really well-crafted, well-produced, noisy-as-hell yet with some surprisingly moving melodies and progressions. Favorite track: The Dust of Centuries.
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1.
Bound 05:38
there's always a cage in search of a bird we're chained bound by a choice, betrayed by our words we're framed like rats in a lab, behave for rewards we're trained and your thumb's up your ass as you wait for a change i'm sick of things the way they are our longings and assumptions become our leashes there is a cage around your mind, around my heart, but we still deny a sinking ship, an albatross bound together in a paradise lost we always get close but we can't or won't understand we're drained with stars around our heads and blood on our hands we're stained we could be more but we'd rather pretend a sick game get close but we can't... when the mercury's rising and the sky is falling and your tv has drowned out a world that's calling don't try to tell me you cannot, you will not, you won't see it coming it's too late i'm sorry will all mean nothing
2.
they've done it for some gold we've done it for petrol they'll do it for your souls 'cause the monkey with the beard said so beneath the dust of centuries lie parliaments and majesties and everything and nothing is it in our blood? or in books we read? in narrow bands of light we see? still trying to find an essence there's a signal in the noise that's created and destroyed there's a dust we can't avoid the scavengers will claim the spoils is this what they wanted? are we the dream? is this the foreseen dystopia? is a paradise buried beneath the centuries? we're always somewhere in between
3.
everyone I know is holding a grudge there's too few ears, there's too many tongues and there's a blind spot in every eye it's not just you and me, it's not the first time out of sight you're out of your mind still trying to see don't realize you're blind in every eye... seeing for yourself it's just a fraction, only a fraction we've made a maze from those narrow waves now we're stuck in delerium in every eye...
4.
Red Lines 03:52
the catalyst that we can't talk about when our eyes turn to glass and the walls start to come down one night on the floor one night against the wall everytime tracking the cracks in my skull we've spun on red lines we start at the end we've dropped down red lines and we held our breath everything gets deranged now but i'm still trying to become the change you can't stop what has begun with the radio, acid, and a gun
5.
scar me with your loveless hands consume me with your shameless want dig your claws into my flesh now i know you're having fun you should have known that i'd bite back did you think that i forgot? i don't know how you call that love i don't think that i can stop i'm pretty much fucked your taste, your smell, your love you had to rub it in my face twist all that i said exploit my weaknesses but now you'll have to pay
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Darkhall 04:52
things are getting slippery things are getting kinda crazy maybe it's all in my head maybe it's just the way you make me feel even after all these years the only thing that keeps me here is gravity and fragments of reality i thought were real and even when we die, there's nothing new we just don't move, don't need to breathe we'll leave long shadows until we come back to bleed 'cause it is always the way it is we now know it's nothing the truth is make-believe and it will be just the way that it will be we now know it's nothing the truth is make-believe say what you want to say no one is listening anyway the world's on fire, but at least you entertained so we close our eyes and add fuel to the flames even after all these years the only thing that keeps me here is gravity, depravity, and one last chance to be the one who's in your head, in your face, between your legs, between the seeds the one who takes you, awakes you, and makes you see
8.
Down Here 06:40
down here it makes no difference logic only gets you so far down here we take turns being wicked like iron fists in velvet gloves i wish it wasn't so complicated today might be the day everything could change today we hope to be saved from the hell we create it comes together painfully slow down here there's so much resistance down here we'll push and they will pull down here we call this existence today might be the day everything could change today we hope to be saved from the hell we create i can't believe we've made it this far but that could change at any moment i can't believe that it's been so hard but that could change at any moment
9.
Tell 04:55
i just have to remember to tell myself things will get better i tell myself a million times i tell myself i tell myself i tell myself don't try to tell me i used to believe
10.
Sam Richards, Phd. doesn't matter there's no place for you we don't think about that because if we think about that then we have to question everything and if we start to question everything then this entire thing called the United States of America the land of the free the home of the brave has to be called into question and you can't do that because if we call that into question then we have to call everything into question including who we are and what we are and why we exist then this whole thing is subject to question and then, the wheels don't go round and round and round and round and if we have to think about this, then life gets a little bit uncomfortable
11.
i live in the shadows of cleptocrats and brothels on pennsylvania ave. with children of the leviathan out for blood, whatever it takes to win so let's face it many don't mind another whitewash 'cause they sure love the hegemony paying lip service to justice through symbols and through pageantry we can move forward, we can escape i remember on independence day we can move backwards, repeat the mistakes the choices we made on independence day we perpetuate the legacy of empire and of tyranny if children of the leviathan are blinded by the womb they're nourished in so let's face it no longer can we export injustice and call it national security so we must fight for independence from illusions of democracy
12.
Bullet 06:18
it felt like a bright idea at the time i guess it always feels that way i knew it would be soon, or sooner or later i didn't think it'd be today you put me away i gave you the bullet you put me away i gave you the bullet that put me away... we are just like strung-out crackwhores the only difference is the drug we crave i was about to light myself on fire but then love got in the way but you put me away i gave you the bullet you put me away i gave you the bullet that put me away... don't be surprised by the blowback all those guns and bombs you've sold to distant lands for proxy wars what was it all for?

about

In the shadows of Washington DC and its criminal regime, Mindless Faith returns with Medication for the Misinformed - a lethal dose of dark electronics and industrial anthems, laced with heavy beats and charged vocals. After years of war and campaigns of misinformation, it is still politics as usual in the "land of the free". The media is still for sale and the citizen-consumers are still prey to the trappings of pop culture...an opiate of the masses who don't even realize they're addicts. But the images on the screen are only a placebo, if not a poison.

Against this mindless status quo, Medication for the Misinformed is a musical shot in the arm and a socially-provocative slap in the face. Shadowland.no says the sound is "all power, fury, and drive," even when elements of world music, ambient, and trance are fused into the industrial-strength mix of noise, distorted synths, and abrasive guitars. To the extent that such diversity crossed into schizophrenia on previous releases, Mindless Faith have worked these different elements into a cohesive framework and trademark sound on Medication for the Misinformed. Reviews are starting to come in, especially in the German magazines where Medication for the Misinformed has been called "a varied and thrilling piece of work which you should listen through from beginning to end" (Zillo) and "a perfect mix of power and atmospheric tightness and the most impressive Electro-Industrial import in years.” (Negatief)

"Album of the Month"
"An extremely diverse affair with an apocalyptic flair. 'Medication For The Misinformed" is a well-produced, varied and captivating work, which can and should be listened to from start to finish. A must-buy for fans of electro-guitar crossover." - Zillo Magazine

"Newcomer of the Month"
"... the Americans thoroughly dust off the coffer of electro and present with their latest work not the usual fare but a pile of multi-faceted compositions that will get many an electro fan's blood pumping." - Orkus Magazine

"Beautiful, forbiddingly menacing and nasty. Catchy and cross-grained. This release finds the US trio playing with the full range of musical expression. A candid style and an acute sense for how to craft a song from a conglomeration of sound makes 'Medication For The Misinformed'
an outstanding album. 9/10" - Gothic Magazine

"... hard, icey, and deeply cynical lyrics, packaged in cutting edge, invidious industrial. 'Medication For The Misinformed' is an excellent work, hard, intelligent, and enthralling in typical American Industrial style, and one which is sure to win the hearts of the fans." - whiskey-soda.de

"...here is a band clearly on their way to the top. If this album isn't a massive hit with the hard electro crowd, the end is truly nigh." - uselinks.de

"THE modern sound of Elektro/Industrial-Crossover! The new album rocks!" - elektrauma.de

credits

released October 16, 2007

Recorded between January 2005 and September 2007 in Washington DC, Brooklyn NY, and Baltimore MD. Written, produced, mixed and mastered by Jason and Chris Sevanick. Additional mixing on Darkhall by Brent Kolatalo. Kim Dylla appears courtesy of Thismeansyou.

CD artwork and design by Chris and Jason Sevanick. Concrete interior and graphic assistance by Valentine. Screens and debris by IndustriArts. Band photos by Dirk Eusterbrock and Angel Morales. Gauge photo by Tamas Tuboly (tamastuboly@yahoo.com).

A very special thanks goes to the following (in no particular order):

Stefan Herwig and Dependent Records, Metropolis Records; Peter Sotos; Derek Sivers-CDBaby; Chris Kristof; Ryan Speth; Paul Green; Bunim-Murray/MTV; SomaFM; DJ Ras DNA and the Deep6 Prod crew; DJ Lee; Corey Appleby; Ki Hartwick; Side-Line; Mike V @ Hidden Sanctuary; IPM Radio; TommyT-DSBP; Daskreestof; Alex Asselin; Monica Robles; DJ Coppertop; Kangal; Chris Flam-Mindswerve; DJ Hellraver; DJ Ian Ford; Jim Semonik (Hiem); Paul & Karla; ContemptNY, DJ Pierrorist and Carmen Brady; Brent; DJ Mythadrall; DJ Xian; DJ Spider; Larry Bradby; Angel Morales; Yluko; Hypofixx; Joker; Val; Lisa P; Punketta; Branden Snavely; Chris and Shara Foldi; Brian and Cassie; DJ Neska; Aaron Edmunds; Billy; Sam Murray; Vivien Weimar; Gabe Shaw; Psymbiotic; Cryoflesh; Hot Picks; Medic; Branden; Joe; all the fans who have supported us over the years; and all the cool people we’ve met along the way --- in loving memory of Kai Sevanick.

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