ARTIST: Poor Me
TITLE: Cosplay
LABEL:
GENRE: Punk Rock
SOURCE: WEB (https://poorme.bandcamp.com/album/cosplay)
BITRATE: 320 kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 41:14
RELEASE DATE: 2015-00-00
RIP DATE: 2016-01-04
ENCODER: LAME
Track List
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1. Why Should I? 2:55
2. I'm No Superman 2:27
3. Clean My Head 3:04
4. Shoulder the Mantle 4:02
5. Taste Takers 3:09
6. The Whole World Is Watching 3:03
7. Vigilante Life 3:20
8. The Night Gwen Stacy Died 4:00
9. Paper Thin Faith 3:17
10. Mad Love 4:45
11. Smash It Out 2:53
12. A Man to End Worlds 4:19
Release Notes:
Poor Me is a five-piece hardcore, pop-punk outfit from Denver, CO. Since forming
in 2010, Poor Me has played a handful of Western tours from Chicago to LA,
sharing stages with celebrated rock acts such as Alkaline Trio, TouchΘ AmorΘ,
Face to Face, Teenage Bottlerocket, I the Mighty, and The Sidekicks. They have
appeared at SXSW, Riot Fest, FoCoMX and more.
Cosplay is a concept album about heroism. A fierce, daily prescription of
courage and mettle, or conversely, of fear and dread, can spawn an unshakeable
set of behaviors that may forever define us. As we become intimately
interconnected with one another, the right time and location to be impactful
becomes an incessant here and now. Collectively, we will continue to be framed
by our willingness to challenge or impose things such as violence, but what of
our willingness to neutrality, of being present but unwilling to take part -
what extrapolations should be made from our indifference? Our mythologies share
a consistent interpretation of what makes a hero/ine. These characters shoulder
the responsibility of entire communities as the whole world watches, smash fear
before it poisons their head, and offer examples of humanist vigilantism while
being treated as less than human themselves.
This record introduces some alternative narratives to the well-known comic book
characters that we cherish for their larger-than-life occupancies in our own
moral systems. The hope is to humanize their heroism, their dissonances, as
processes that bear difficult fortitudes. Though their fictional means may be
out of reach, their evolving struggle is of an attainable, cognitive capacity.
Stimulating idle hands can be terrifying, but so is becoming the villain.
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