Bargain Day

Video: by Tim Davis Song: Produced, written recorded by SKP (LIP TALK) Mixed by Ian Hersey (Fun Secret) Mastered by Jonathan Jetter at Right Angle Productions SKP (LIP TALK) - synths, bass drum production Josh Karpeh (Cautious Clay) - sax Ian Hersey (Fun Secret) - additional synths Bargain Day was inspired by a Tim Davis photo. I wrote and recorded it in one day in November 2020 as part of a song-a-day writing challenge. It depicts a world in which “living on the outside“ is unachievable and the fantasy of counterculture life is instantly subverted, and woven back into the matrix. Bargain Day is about the façade of equity and the ways in which inequality, exploitation and illusion are built into the core of American capitalism. When every day is bargain day, the bargains become vampires, sucking our attention, feeding off our longings with promises of happiness. Released June 9, 2021 via Northern Spy Records