Short term gains, long term pains!
Big Stinking Pile, the fourth EP from Wellington’s Rogernomix, drops six tracks of raw d-beat crust in the spirit of Totalitar and Anti-Cimex, all politically charged and zero compromise. Released as a 7″ and download in August 2014 on Always Never Fun, with the vinyl launch at Valhalla on September 11, just nine days before the election that locked in a third National term, it features a classic cover of then-PM John Key squatting atop the Beehive and shitting on the band.
The songs tear into surveillance (“XKeyscore”), Aotearoa’s drinking culture (“Drunken State”), council failures on begging (“Chump Change”), veganism (“XvegantothemaX”), asset sales (“Sale of the Century”), and the social-media prison (“Glass Walls”). Short, sharp, and stinking of the exact political moment that birthed it.
| Released | 2014, August 13 |
| Label | Always Never Fun – ANF 015 |
| Formats | 7″/ DL |
| Recorded | Scumbag College |
| Producer | Rogernomix, Vanya Vitali |
| Engineer | Vanya Vitali |
| Cover art | Hannah Salmon |
