The Get Up Kids’ Matt Pryor tackles police brutality on new Plutocracy Planet song

As you may have heard, a lot of emo veterans sing on the upcoming album from Scott Morrow’s “super-collective” Plutocracy Planet. We recently posted the songs with Braid’s Bob Nanna and Far/onelinedrawing’s Jonah Matranga, and today we’re premiering the one with The Get Up Kids’ Matt Pryor. The song was inspired by police brutality and killings against people of color, and the dark subject matter is matched by haunting acoustic guitars and buzzing synths. It also features rapper Swamburger. Scott tells us: Though there have been countless killings of unarmed and non-threatening people of color, easily captured in the smartphone era, the killing of George Floyd really woke a lot of people up. It was a ‘crossing the Rubicon’ for a lot of people who p...

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