Down with Liberty...up with Chains! (Sounds of Subterrania) LP IMPORT

 A limited edition pressing (500 copies) of the debut Chain & the Gang album Down with Liberty...up with Chains! (SOS 200), from the German Sounds of Subterrania label. It is packaged in a special hand made cover. "The 2009 debut album from the chain gang led by Ian Svenonius (Nation of Ulysses, Make-Up, Weird War) is a masterpiece of primitivism. From dazzling set pieces of R'n'B and rock’n’roll, the band forms highly melodic songs full of call-and-response chants (“What Is A Dollar”), or invites you to take a walk through the cemetery (“Cemetry Map”), which sounds so spooky as if voodoo master Dr. John had thought it up. Sometimes Svenonius just grabs a wooden guitar to make fun of conspiracy theories like in “Deathbed Confessions”: “I faked the moon landing, I saved Hitler’s brain. Yeah, it’s in Argentina but it controls the USA.” Calvin Johnson produced the album at his Dub Narcotic studio and also did a bit of background vocals. The beat lurches and sways as confidently and su