Robyn Hitchcock - The President (2020 version)

Опубликовано: 16 Сентябрь 2020
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Available now for pre-order as limited edition red vinyl 7 inch, and also as a digital download at Bandcamp:

https://robynhitchcockofficial.bandca...

Art direction, concept, graphic design: Emma Swift
Additional graphic design: Robyn Hitchcock
Animation: Alex Dar

Robyn Hitchcock - vocal and guitar
Emma Swift - harmony vocal
Patrick Sansone - Mellotron, Mellotron bass, triangle and 12 string guitars

Produced by Emma Swift and Robyn Hitchcock at Tiny Ghost Studios
Mixed by Patrick Sansone at Tiny Door Studios
Mastered by Michael Hynes

About The President:

I wrote ‘The President’ in the Spring of 1986 after Ronald Reagan had been talking in a very inflammatory way about Russia (and a patronizing way about Europe) during a visit to what was then West Germany. At this point the Cold War still felt to many of us that it might go nuclear. And like many that bleak April, I was horribly scared. The song, recorded on ‘Element Of Light’ by the Egyptians and myself, caught a lot of that dread - I hope.

34 years later, the latest and most monstrous in a line of egregious Republican Commanders-in-Chiefs is a shameless bullying gangster who, abetted by a coalition of Greed and Ignorance, is aiming to scupper the forthcoming US election and proclaim himself Emperor of America. Bizarrely, one of his greatest allies is in this is Russia - which is almost the opposite of the Reagan scenario. But this man’s offense to human decency is far greater than Ronald Reagan’s. I’m aware that in comparing him to a pig, I’m insulting pigs - and I apologize to any who are reading this. He is physically disgusting to behold, like some extruded prolapse that’s managed to squeeze itself into a suit and tie. He looks uncomfortable with himself, as if one half of him would love to detach from the other and float away. Of course, I could be projecting here...