UPSET THE RHYTHM PRESENTS: CHAIN AND THE GANG
Having displayed his renaissance-man credentials for all the world to see, Ian Svenonius —the former frontman of the Nation of Ulysses, Cupid Car Club, the Make-Up, the Scene Creamers, and Weird War— is back with a shiny new project: Chain and the Gang.
Apparently "concerned that the spread of liberty has been detrimental to the world" —citing "fast food, bad architecture, militarism, rampant greed, environmental destruction, imperial conquest, [and] class struggle" as evidence— Svenonius says his band name is a plea for bondage; a catch-all for his new, tongue-in-cheek anti-freedom movement.
Suitably enough, the first Chain and the Gang album is titled Down with Liberty... Up with Chains! And though C&TG essentially finds Svenonius working solo for the first time since his 2001 album as David Candy, he does get help from such K Records luminaries as label founder Calvin Johnson and Blow heroine Khaela Maricich.



