"there's a city on the hill, a place where we can live..."
Politicians, fucking politicians. Since the beginning of time they have been a source of frustration that lie somewhere between used car salesmen and cult leaders. On both, every side of the aisle they let me (us) down and it is hard to not take it personally. Their names are splashed across the media, President Trump (megalomaniac / pathological liar), Governor Mario Cuomo (leering creeper / sexual predator), Governor Gavin Newsom (narcissist / possible serial killer), President Obama (the gleam of hope that I wanted to believe in, yet he perpetuated the most Drone strikes of any president killing likely over a thousand innocent men, women and children). Sorry if I sound bitter, I am. I am obviously joking about Newsom's predilections (spurred on by his resemblance to Christian Bale in American Psycho) but politicians let me down every fucking single time and maybe that is why "Change Candidate" stuck to me.
"Change Candidate" by Sleep Diet, the divergent project of visual artist David Charles Boe who is also the co-founder of the Los Angeles nonprofit DIY venue Non Plus Ultra, is a slippery sideways art punk explosion casting wide eyes aspersions at two faced politicians with avant garde glam pop-isms that bring Robert Fripp / Brian Eno, The Tubes and Bryan Ferry to mind. Check out the equally sideways Official Video as directed by Shannon Pollak in collaboration with Highland Park TV.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Sleep Diet is David Charles Boe, visual artist and co-founder of nonprofit DIY venue Non Plus Ultra. On his first solo album since leaving alt-metal outift, Wizard Rifle, Boe has taken a hard left turn and recorded an album of jazz, blues and folk standards. Cop Wife Waitress transmutes fourteen early 20th Century American songs into ragged, Lynchian future-pop. Performed almost entirely by Boe with guest appearances by Ashi Dala & Spooky Tavi (HOTT MT), Gal Lazer (Yonatan Gat) and Grant Cabezadevaca (The Cosmonauts), Cop Wife Waitress was recorded over the course of a year at NPU, before being mixed by psych-rock visionary, Lionel Williams.
Sleep Diet, art punk, Psychedelic Rock, Lo-fi Rock, Indie Rock, Los Angeles based visual artist, David Charles Boe, co-founder of Non Plus Ultra, "Change Candidate",
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