{"id":2032,"date":"2012-05-06T23:22:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T06:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=2032"},"modified":"2012-05-06T23:22:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T06:22:45","slug":"cracksman-betty-live-on-bandcamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/06\/cracksman-betty-live-on-bandcamp\/","title":{"rendered":"cracksman betty LIVE on bandcamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/album\/cracksman-betty-remixed-and-remastered\"><i>Cracksman Betty<\/i>, alternate history songs of riot and revolution, is live on Bandcamp <em>now<\/em><\/a>. The album of not-entirely-traditional songs we never really intended to make is online, 13 tracks on the web, including &#8220;The S-100 Bus&#8221; (also available as a free download) as a bonus.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding:10px; z-index: 10; position: relative; left-margin: 20; right: 0; top: 0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=150 height=150 src=\"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/images\/cracksman-betty-remaster-200.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>I really said the best of what I think I have to say on Friday. This is CRIME and the Forces of Evil \u2013 or various subsets thereof \u2013 not taking everything quite so seriously. It&#8217;s an alternate history lesson, it&#8217;s kicking back in the studio just to have fun, it&#8217;s riot girls dyking our way around Vancouver starting fights (not that I&#8217;d know anything about that, aheh), it&#8217;s cyborgs doing it for the lulz&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and it\u2019s kicking out some good old alternate-world Cascadian piracy, riot, and revolution folk.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also a good lead-in for the Faerie Blood\/Bone Walker soundtrack we&#8217;ll hopefully be doing in a couple of months; that&#8217;ll be somewhere between this and <i>Dick Tracy Must Die<\/i> in tone, depending upon where you are in the books. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>This new album leads off with a brand new track, &#8220;Song for a Blockade Runner\/High Barbaree,&#8221; something you&#8217;ve never heard. It&#8217;s a new song, with new music, telling a different version of the High Barbaree story, one with enough references to the original to mention it &#8211; but it&#8217;s from the pirates&#8217; side, and set in the Republic of Cascadia&#8217;s 1973-1974 war for independence. Hit PLAY now:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"410\" style=\"position: relative; display: block; width: 300px; height: 410px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/v=2\/album=392130265\/size=grande3\/bgcol=FFFFFF\/linkcol=844510\/\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/album\/cracksman-betty-remixed-and-remastered\">Cracksman Betty (Remixed and Remastered) by CRIME and the Forces of Evil<\/a><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, if you bought the pre-remaster <i>Cracksman Betty<\/i> for money, at a show or something? Contact me. Send me a photo with your CD. I&#8217;ll throw you a download code.<\/p>\n<p>I worry a little about this album, I admit it. We&#8217;re mostly about the elfmetal, and the rage. This has elements of that, but it&#8217;s a different angle, less complex, and absolutely as sedate as we&#8217;ll ever get. I don&#8217;t want people to think we&#8217;re losing our edge. <i>Din of Thieves<\/i> will disprove <em>that<\/em> in 2013, but that&#8217;s a year away.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that, as much to my surprise as anybody else&#8217;s, I&#8217;m convinced of this album. My beta listeners certainly were. If you forgot the reactions I quoted, here they are again:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>everything I hear in these tracks is totally Next Level from what came before.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026followed by an assortment of &#8220;impressive,&#8221; &#8220;SO MUCH BETTER&#8221; [capslock as per original], &#8220;awesome,&#8221; and &#8220;I love Dalek Boy so much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I hope you do, too. Hit PLAY. Find out. 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