Collapsing Scenery
God's Least Favorite
Collapsing Scenery featuring Don DeVore (Icarus Line/Lilys/Amazing Baby/Sick Feeling/Souls She Said/Ink & Dagger) return with 'God's Least Favorite'. 4 songs that twist beauty and catastrophe, control and chaos to tackle social and political topics weaved in undeniable rhythm and meter. In a genre often lacking in lyrical bite, theirs is electro music with meaning and purpose. It flexes the head as well as the heart. The EP leads with the taut post-punk electro single Metaphysical Cops, a techno inspired opus whose title takes inspiration from Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov, specifically this quote from Pnin: "Metaphysical police can break physical bones." The body of the lyrics were inspired by the great Harpers piece 'Straight Man's Burden' by Jeff Sharlet, and they muse on the culpability of segments of the U.S. religious right in the implementation of Uganda's horrific anti-gay laws. It considers the very real consequences of invidious and extremist American ideologies which, struggling to find a foot-hold at home, are transplanted into new territories.