LICE - WASTELAND: What Ails Our People Is Clear Violent Femmes Nick Mason and Richard Wright

Nick Mason and Richard Wright

Lake Street Dive has figured out how to write tunes that reflect this particularly turbulent chapter in our shared history

“We’ve been a band for so long that we didn’t want to just become a feedback loop of our own ideas

" alongside a trove of demos

'Assembly’ is the first new Joe Strummer title to be released on Dark Horse Records

LICE - WASTELAND: What Ails Our People Is Clear Violent Femmes Nick Mason and Richard WrightReleased 22nd January 2021. A satire about satire, WASTELAND is a wild Burroughsian adventure melding science fiction, absurdism and magical realism, calling fora revolution against the reductive good versus evil narratives of popular satirical music. Arguing that through experimenting with the form of the song lyric (our most widely disseminated form of creative writing) we can build more nuanced popular discourse around the implicit forms of bias