Generation I

by Sheeps

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In an age of growing disquiet over technology’s advancement, Sheeps’ first single, Generation I, dutifully captures this sentiment, channeling it into five-and-a-half-minutes of their own high-tempo, guitar-driven brand of Art Rock.

Born from frontperson Dean Blackwell’s concern for the young generation of guinea pigs in a technological new world order and backed by an unrelenting Indie-Rock-with-a-DnB-feel from the rhythm section, the guitars drone with an incessance that speaks to the constant exposure to content and throat-stuffing of advertisements, and Blackwell sings, with a jaded cynicism, of a hammering self-centredness which sees these youngsters develop a habit of oversharing to the point of indecency to an imagined global audience.

lyrics

Spreading like a binarial disease;
These self-appointed, self-assured solonauts fire mercilessly.
Secure within this dark carnival
of humanity’s most wretched impulses.
Drawing power from the screen.

I digress between convulsions.

Beneath a veil of obscene characters.
A credential list of hacked addresses.
A background check outsourced abroad,
A thick smokescreen of marred dexterity.

We’re generating ‘I! I! I!’s and ‘Me! Me! Me!’s
with apples in their eyes,
That manufacture ‘Why? Why? Why?’
and ‘Please? Please? Please?’
for a stone tablet devised to be bigger than We.

Generation I.

A premature display of uniformity with just a password as protection.
A stifling of the senses. Subliminal regression.
Advertised appeals towards depravity.

credits

released March 1, 2024
Engineered by James Goldsmith.
Mastered by Chris Chetland at KOG Studios.
Artwork by Sean Walker.
Released through AllGood Absolute Alternative Records, March 1st 2024.

Sheeps are:
Thomas Friggens - Drums
Grace Baker - Guitar
Blain Fitzpatrick - Bass Guitar
Simon Blackwell - Guitar
Dean Blackwell - Guitar/Vocals

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