The Mekons to Release 'Exquisite,' Surprise New Album Recorded in Isolation

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The Mekons return with their surprise new LP 'Exquisite,' which the band wrote and recorded while in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic

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, the Mekons also shared their trippy video for “Escalera,” filmed by the band during their respective isolations.borrows its name from the art term “exquisite cadavers.” “In Paris, in 1925, Yves Tanguy, Jacques Prévert, André Breton and Marcel Duchamp invented a game they called ‘cadavre exquis,’ derived from a phrase that came up when they first played: ‘le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau’ ,” the Mekons said.

“Basically each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule or by being allowed to see only the end of what the previous person contributed. In the current plague year 2020, after a planned rendezvous in Valencia was necessarily canceled, Mekons adopted this method as a means of collectively assembling lyrics and tunes and recording their new album.”

 

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