Idiots Talking to Idiots

"The picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one"

I didn’t want to write this album. But I found myself writing most of it in one night post dinner, after seeing yet another gruesome and exhausting day in the news. It was my only catharsis in coming to the reality that my home country’s leadership was just trying to be all-out cruel, and that maybe we weren’t the “good guys” anymore. One of the most heartbreaking parts was the cutting of USAID, which feeds, educates, houses, and develops the poorest areas of the world. They also help stop diseases from taking root and spreading to our own back doors. I guess the leaders don’t think the ills of the world will ever reach their doorsteps. Instead some danced on a stage with a chainsaw celebrating. This is short sighted, and worse yet, there will be someone to step in to fill this void. I’ll give you a hint. It won’t be a democracy.

So, all sales of this album after bandcamp’s cut, will go to the World Central Kitchen. It’s the best solution I can come up with to help the poorest and struggling people in disaster areas and war zones. It’s only helping people in food crisis and I know I’m only throwing a peddle into an ocean. I’m a small artist, the money I can generate isn’t much, but at least it’s not just….talk. You can support any charity of your liking without buying this album as well.

I know some of the subjects or criticisms on this album will anger some people. While it’s not my intent, you’re free to receive it as you like or don’t. If you feel as if you must retort my views, I feel it’s only respectful of my time, after the hours I spent, to present your retort in some form of creativity, art, or at the very least, something well thought out. Because just words on the internet are cheap…..and a lot of times very incorrect. And no, AI is not being creative, nor art.

Hopefully I can go back to making a different album in the future. Thanks for the support. Thanks to Trevor Brown for contributing the drums on the album and all his past collaborations. This is what punk music and humanity is to me.

Lum and Trevor

 https://lumband.bandcamp.com/album/idiots-talking-to-idiots

 

Pre- Order New Album, Idiots Talking to Idiots

 

 

 

New album, Idiots Talking to Idiots will be out June, Friday the 13^th. How fitting...Today we release the title track and pre-order here: https://lumband.bandcamp.com/album/idiots-talking-to-idiots More information soon. Until then enjoy.

~Trevor and Lum

 

I Hate Your Band (Free Stream)

I Hate Your Band (New Punk CD)

That same old collective of enraged expats living in Japan came together for yet another album.  And by album I mean 13 songs coming in at 8 minutes.  I recorded and mixed this, and managed to add guitar work to it with a fractured arm.  Everything and everyone in Fukuoka, slagged by this group of A-holes.  No one is safe.  Even ourselves.  All our grievances in a minute or less per song.  The full CD can be downloaded here: I Hate Your Band

youtube stream coming soon. 

DIY and Punk

I took this picture a month ago.  It got me to thinking.  In some sad way, this is almost as “punk” as it gets.  Cutting stamps out and slapping some ink on some self-made CDs.  The “Do- It-Yourself” mentality gives you power.  Punk and DIY isn’t necessarily a style of music or what clothes you wear; nor is it shopping at a conglomerate or corporation like Hot Topic, or sporting a Mohawk.   It’s getting shit done on your own or with the help of friends and a community of like-minded people.   I was happy to help Juan in making all these CDs.  I hope he gets some use out of them.

I have a feeling a lot more music from the past is coming out soon..................