Cruel Optimism TSOV-INACTIVE-1 female-fronted band

female-fronted band

moodier album than it's predecessor

Includes interviews with the band members intercut with full-length performances

ex-VIOLENT FEMMES saxman blowing on it

The pair fist worked together 10 years ago on the song

Cruel Optimism TSOV-INACTIVE-1 female-fronted bandLP version. "Cruel Optimism is a record that considers power (present and absent). It meditates on how power consumes, augments, and ultimately shapes two subsequent human conditions: obsession and fragility. This edition owes it's title and it's origins to the wonderful text of the same name by American theorist Lauren Berlant. In Cruel Optimism, I found a number of critical readings around the issues that have fueled so much of the music I have been