Retirement

Retirement

Attention Economy

Iron Lung

***Rather than interviewing the unsuspecting general public about their initial reactions to RETIREMENT’s music, which was an extreme entertainment for us and people in the know about their 1st LP Buyer’s Remorse, we decided to take it straight to the band on this new one for their perspective. To us, Attention Economy is a blistering indictment of a petty, distracted world and all its related jingle jangle nonsense. When asked about the new album, here is what they had to say:“As days blur into weeks, weeks into months, months into years, you can’t help but wonder where did all the time go? As each new apex of brutality and consumerism surpasses itself, it’s quickly replaced by an even darker future than we could ever imagine.We see this album as our cathartic release, the accumulation of the stress and the anxiety that boils at the surface of 'contemporary living'. As our screens dangle privilege and unattainable potential, we crouch forward to the next thing, the next big distraction. Mouths agape and ready for the drop.What does humanity have to show for itself, aside from tik-tok dancing to the images of beheaded children?”Once you, lovely listener, connect these images to the absolute bludgeoning sound contained herein, you start to realize just how uncomfortable and absolutely necessary RETIREMENT’s world really is. Come on in…"

Retirement

Buyer's Remorse

Iron Lung

***We physically took this recording around to various outdoor places where 'people' enjoy 'music' and played the album for them. Without prompting, here are some of the highlights that got spit back at us: “Aggro midtempo noise. I love it!”—guy wearing a Rudimentary Peni shirt “Unfriendly.”—mother of two “Misanthropic.”—foodeater “Sounds like these guys have hopeless lives.”—frisbee golfer “If the Dead are a friend’s couch and Metallica are a room at the Waldorf, then Retirement is a concrete mattress.”—professor of media studies “There is so much dirt in this city.”—anonymous portable bathroom chatter “Is ‘nihilism’ a music genre now?”—comedy show barker “Punk? No thanks.”—mother of three Includes a lyric insert. Recorded by Kevin Purcell. Mixed by Ron Lewis. Mastered by Will Killingsworth. Photography by Evan Soto and design by Shea Hardacre.