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Heads You Win, Tails We Lose

from TOGETHER (2023) by Antillectual

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    Pre-order our new album TOGETHER as Digipak CD! Your physical copy will be with you on the release date May 2nd. The CD comes in a reversed cardboard Digipak with a booklet for the lyrics and extensive liner notes.

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    Pre-order our new album TOGETHER as tape. Your physical copy will be with you on the release date May 2nd. Tapes are limited to only 25 hand numbered copies.

    Includes unlimited streaming of TOGETHER (2023) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • T-Shirt/Shirt

    The design is the artwork of our 2023 album TOGETHER. White print on black fabric. Fair trade, organic and vegan. Shirt: Stanley Creator, design: Thomas at Dark Roast, print: fairtrademerch.

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  • T-Shirt/Shirt + Digital Album

    The design is the artwork of our 2023 album TOGETHER. Red print on yellow fabric. Fair trade, organic and vegan. Shirt: Stanley Creator, design: Thomas at Dark Roast, print: fairtrademerch.

    These shirts use “dual sizing”, taking sizing differences across the world into consideration. For instance: an EU large is the same size as a US medium. Want a roomier baggy fit? Follow the US sizing.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Together via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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about

It was only a matter of time for a counter movement to arise after the economic crisis of 2008. Hoping for a left wing solution to solve a right wing problem seemed sensible, right? Instead, populism became one of the main responses to the recession.
This populist wave has been destroying many progressive accomplishments all over the world. Trump in the US, Boris Johnson in the UK, Orban in Hungary, Duterte in the Philippines, Geert Wilders and Thierry Baudet in the Netherlands, the list seems endless. If it wasn’t so painful you could call it ironic: self proclaimed “ordinary people” fighting the establishment they are the very product of. Well established people with a successful commercial or political career now say they represent society’s “leftovers”. Lower middle class families scared of the changes in a globalizing world form a group of people that feels betrayed by the political and economic elite. As a reaction they like to take on the classes above them (the elite) and below them (sexual, racial, religious and other minorities, and immigrants).
The lack of representation is a huge problem in western democracy, but fixing that problem by installing repressive authoritarian leaders is very counterproductive.

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We get the leaders that we deserve
Heads you win, tails we lose

What the fuck has happened, post apocalyptic wake up
I’ll never drink again, I just can not believe what’s hitting us
Idiot tsunamis, surging corpocratic stickup
Political pollution, posers, populistic buzz

Selling out the people that you claim to speak for

Heads you win, tails we lose
Fuck this game, your placebo news

The White House lead by Wall Street, main street left out in the gutter
The coach of the three comma club serving B-sides of society
Power brings responsibility like a big brother
Instead we get dictators, trapped in our democracy

Fuck this game and your fake excuse

Disgracefully you tear down what was built
It seems as if you’ve never heard of guilt
Unfortunately you’ll never be billed
For all the hard fought progress that you killed

Fuck this game and your crooked views
Half full glasses always get refilled

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from TOGETHER (2023), released May 2, 2023

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Antillectual Nijmegen, Netherlands

Antillectual from Nijmegen, the Netherlands plays a socially conscious, melodic blend of music, ranging from ‘90’s skate punk to ‘00’s emo and ‘10’s orgcore. Creating their own unique blend of stolen riffs and borrowed song titles, while carrying the torch of European punkrock. ... more

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