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| | Bad Subjects: The Underclass |
 | | On their latest release The Underclass, anarcho-punk vets Rudimentary Peni offer such an artistic diagnosis of the times, focusing on the trauma and human suffering that accompany the latest period of accelerated capitalist development. |
 | | The Peni have penned twelve songs highlighting the loneliness, despair, oppression, and nihilism that continue to haunt everyday life in spite of (or perhaps exactly because of?) the prosperity and relative peace citizens of the late capitalist world currently enjoy. |
 | | Loud, angry, and just barely in control, Rudimentary Peni strike a classic punk pose, defiantly spoiling their listeners' day by reminding them that behind the shiny, stylish facade of a consumer society in overdrive there lie darker realities -- keenly felt pain, deep despair, aborted relationships. |
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