BREAKING THE ROAD

Thanks, GANG PARADE, Now My Brain Is Bleeding

/ Homicidol Maniac / 3 Comments

GANG PARADE is killing it; it is known. Also known — that this song was recalling a little bit more of the earlier days of the group, more Pla2me than anything. It got the Soundcloud release treatment a little while back, and most folks took it as a net positive anyway, and were excited for the “BREAKING THE ROAD” A-side (which is excellent).

Whether an MV was inevitable, that’s debatable, but seeing it leaves me contemplating the inevitability of death and why I need to medicate less when gross bugs are going around the office:

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GANG PARADE Broke the Ability to Metaphor

/ Homicidol Maniac / 5 Comments

Ages ago, back when I was planning out how I wanted to do this idiotic project, I wrote out a series of topics that I thought were worth discussing. It’s worth noting that said editorial outline ultimately turned into nothing because I had grossly underestimated the size and complexity of just this little corner of the Idolverse, and I wasn’t ever going to have time to make a lot of those pieces happen. Noting that, however, I can still say that I had wanted to do a pre-most-WACK-things post on the general career arc of one Watanabe Junnosuke, questioning whether it was skill or luck that had gotten him through (at the time) OG BiS, OG BiSH and OG Pla2POP.

So! GANG PARADE made “BREAKING THE ROAD” official today:

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I Don’t Know, GANG PARADE, How Much Do YOU Want to Eat?

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In a 24-hour span, the only part of WACK that hasn’t pushed out something to promote a release old or young is now EMPiRE; GANG PARADE offered up the first track from “BREAKING THE ROAD”:

Well, I’m officially done with trying to figure out what GANG PARADE is going to do at any given time. Going all the way back to POP and the group that got booted from TIF, it’s just been one swerve (or partial swerve) after another. This one’s like closing the loop on a knot that started with “pretty pretty good” and some of the subsequent down-catalog material. It’s also like being at Ultrabar for NYE 2009.

Great title, though. I’d love to get at the lyrics. Also the A-side, but I’ll take what I can get before the MV hits any minute now.

Coco, I have a weird feeling that this one is dedicated to you