CST172 Ky | Power Is The Pharmacy CST153 “Take Away These Early Grave

“Take Away These Early Grave Blues” and “What We Loved Was Not Enough” alongside the previously unheard lullabyes/minuets “Little Ones Run” and “Rains Thru The Roof At Thee Grande Ballroom (For Capital Steez)” and the album centrepiece “Austerity Blues” with its closing lyric “Lord let my son live long enough to see that mountain torn down” sung in varying incarnations throughout the second half of this 14-minute epic

Roberts convened a new band

The idea was spawned when Berlin-based Canadian producer Scott Monteith — best known as DJ and dub-inflected minimal techno-electronica recording artist Deadbeat — heard the Junkies’ Trinity version of "Sweet Jane" playing in an airport a few years back

yet as cohesive

These inspired months of mass mobilization against neo-liberal austerity measures galvanized a wide and inspiring range of agit-prop expression in Montreal

CST172 Ky | Power Is The Pharmacy CST153 “Take Away These Early GraveKy is the new solo project of Ky Brooks, best known as vocalist and lyricist of noise punk trio Lungbutter and a slew of other Montral based out music projects like 8 person queer punk band Femmaggots and experimental improv trio Nag. Power Is The Pharmacy is an album of cerebral and visceral outsider artpunk mainly about grief, death, the fear of loss, losing dreams, losing youth, people, public space, ultimately oneselfan emotionally electrifying,