Potemkin City Limits

Potemkin City Limits
Studio album by Propagandhi
Released October 18, 2005
Recorded in a warehouse, a basement and a bedroom. [1]
Genre Punk rock
Thrash Metal
Anarcho punk[2]
Length 41:25
Label G7 Welcoming Committee/Fat Wreck Chords
Propagandhi chronology

Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes
(2001)		 Potemkin City Limits
(2005)		 Supporting Caste
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [3]
Punknews.org [4]

Potemkin City Limits is the fourth full length album by the Canadian band Propagandhi, released on October 18, 2005 through G7 Welcoming Committee Records in Canada, and Fat Wreck Chords elsewhere. It is the second Propagandhi release on their own label and the last on Fat Wreck Chords.

Guitarist/Vocalist Chris Hannah has stated that he considers "Potemkin City Limits" to be his personal favourite Propagandhi album. [5]

The title of the album is an allusion to Potemkin village, a political term referring to a false construct intended to hide an undesirable situation.

The opening track, "A Speculative Fiction," won the first annual ECHO Songwriting Prize from the Society of Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN).[6] The band pledged to use the $5000 prize to make donations to the Haiti Action Network and The Welcome Place, an organization in Winnipeg (which they'd previously done volunteer work for) which helps refugees start new lives in Manitoba.[7]

Track listing

  1. "A Speculative Fiction" – 4:14
  2. "Fixed Frequencies" – 3:58
  3. "Fedallah's Hearse" – 4:00
  4. "Cut into the Earth" – 3:41
  5. "Bringer of Greater Things" – 2:45
  6. "America's Army™ (Die Jugend Marschiert)" – 4:42
  7. "Rock for Sustainable Capitalism" – 4:12
  8. "Impending Halfhead" – 1:14
  9. "Life at Disconnect" – 3:23
  10. "Name and Address Withheld" – 3:21
  11. "Superbowl Patriot XXXVI (Enter the Mendicant)" – 0:36
  12. "Iteration" – 5:19

Personnel

Cover artwork

The artwork, a girl playing jump rope on a chalk-drawings covered street, is a piece of art called Children's Games from the anarchist artist Eric Drooker.[8]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/Propagandhi-Potemkin-City-Limits/release/881001
  2. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/potemkin-city-limits-mw0000388246
  3. ↑ Allmusic review
  4. ↑ http://www.punknews.org Punknews.org review
  5. ↑ http://www.punknews.org/article/52624/interviews-well-do-it-live-chris-hannah-propagandhi
  6. ↑ "A Look Back at the Year in Manitoba Music". Manitoba Music News. 2006-12-18. Retrieved 2007-02-22.
  7. ↑ "Propagandhi: acceptance speech? Sustained applause?". G7 Welcoming Committee Records. 2006-09-10. Retrieved 2008-08-02.
  8. ↑ "Children's Games". Eric Drooker. Archived from the original on 2006-10-19. Retrieved 2007-02-22.

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