Dead Pioneers PO$T AMERICAN Vinyl LP Crystal Clear Colour 2025 – Default Title

Crystal Clear Colour

Tracklist:

1. PO$T AMERICAN
2. My Spirit Animal Ate Your Spirit Animal
3. Pit Song
4. The Caucasity
5. Mythical Cowboys
6. Dead Pioneers
7. White Wine
8. Juicy Fruit (Ode to Chief Bromden)
9. STFU
10. Bloodletting Carnival
11. Love Language
12. Fire and Ash
13. Working Class Warfare
14. Untitled Spoken Word No. 2

‘PO$T AMERICAN’ is the second full-length album by Dead Pioneers. Written in February and recorded in July, it preempts the 2024 American election but wraps up the fears and frustrations as eloquently and, crucially, humorously as the band’s 2023 self-titled debut.

Currently, we are amidst the gross existence of capitalism, colonialism, white supremacy and the many oppressive forces that have come to inform everything around us says vocalist and songwriter Gregg Deal. The title PO$T AMERICAN informs a collective disenfranchisement and disillusionment to the so-called American dream, while moving forward with hope of a desired designation of unity outside those that would use us for their own capitalistic power grab.

The aural palate is broadly the same, but it feels expanded, stronger somehow: drawing on the confrontational writing of Rage Against The Machine, the unapologetic voice of Chuck D and Public Enemy, the storytelling of Johnny Cash, the evolution of IDLES, and punk stalwarts including Black Flag, Rollins Band and Dead Kennedys.

Overall the resulting feeling across the new album is one of cautious optimism: Although we didnt expect the political relevance to become more relevant, we have no illusions to the American dream, or to where we seem to be going. But we have hope that we can get to a better place for people to have what they need. It is an album that speaks to and for this precise time and place; that perhaps could not exist at any other time. It is an album for now.