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Organised Scum: Unborn Cars
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London UK trio Organised Scum release new single Unborn Cars [today] on 9th March.
London three-piece Organised Scum release their first single of 2018, Unborn Cars, a wonky, understated tune recalling the quirks and buoyant production of ‘80s art-pop. Think XTC, Sparks or Split Enz shackled by the modern-age’s pressures and trappings and you’re on the way to imagining the Organised Scum sound. The title of this latest single, as well as being part of a long lineage of sharp-witted song names (‘Consultants of Swing’, ‘Baby, You’re An Actant’ and ‘Who’s the Prick?’ to name just three) is a reference to Werner Herzog’s documentary about the internet (Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World). |
In this film a GoogleX employee makes reference to ‘unborn cars’ of the future, a turn of phrase that bemused vocalist Tom Duggins. This moment of forgetting that cars are manufactured rather than ‘born’ is taken to draw parallels with the way our society has also been covertly constructed; “if you dare to ask who created our social world, then you’re in the territory of being told that cars are born, and that that our society is a natural outcome of forces beyond our control” says Duggins.
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