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4 June 2025
Credit: The Irrational Library
Band: THE IRRATIONAL LIBRARY
Who: The Irrational Library is a Dutch-American rock band with its roots
firmly planted in both the regional and international counterculture. The
Dutch-American band produces a raw, dirty groove influenced by punk,
provo and punk icons. Their poetry is packed with social criticism.
Track: TRUTH SERUM
First single from the quartet’s new, upcoming
5th LP ‘The Saying Of It All’. More details TBA.
“Staying true to who and what we are as band but always open to exploring sounds both new and familiar. As with most of our songs this one is both personal and political. Lyrically it is a searing meditation on a world of violence, greed and consumption. Musically, I will just allow your ears to fill in the description.”
Artwork by political cartoonist TRIK
TUTV: TIL is back in town. And they move and groove again with brio and gusto
motorized by a striking drum/bass tandem, while a 60s psychedelic flute flutters
like a butterfly throughout the song. Frontman Joshua Baumgarten draws your
aural attention (as usual) with his near-rapping phrasing of the clear-cut lyrics.
I wonder if a truth serum would help to discover the real agenda of the power-greedy powers that be. I’m pretty sure they’re immune for it, but at least we should give it a go. Meanwhile, shake your booty to the beat.
I’m starring into a blackhole
cradling a bouquet of flowers,
and what felt like a couple of minutes
well, it could have been the daze of so many hours
you see I’m passing time while waiting on a friend
stuck in-between what feels like
the beginning
while knowing full well
it just might
be the end.
It’s the truth the serum the saying of it all,
catch your own tongue before you let it all fall,
talking shit was and will always be the cause,
the truth the serum the defining moment of it all.
Now, just because he was a wanted man,
It doesn’t mean you shoot to kill,
Respect for life is neither left nor right
Or to be subjugated by the pressure of free will
It’s the truth the serum the saying of it all,
catch your own tongue before you let it all fall,
talking shit was and will always be the cause,
it’s the truth the serum the defining moment of it all.
Spend and spend cause you want it so bad,
tomorrow just a passing fad,
And all those words that pollute –
Claim the absolute, to kill the confusion
You gotta pull it out
By the root.
It’s the truth the serum the saying of it all,
catch your own tongue before you let it all fall,
talking shit was and will always be the cause,
it’s the truth the serum the defining moment of it all.
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