Potemkin City Limits

Infobox Album | Name = Potemkin City Limits
Type = Album
Artist = Propagandhi


Released = October 18, 2005
Recorded = November 8, 2004 - ?
Genre = Punk rock
Length = 41:25
Label = G7 Welcoming Committee Records/Fat Wreck Chords
Producer =
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:i76zeflk4gf1 link]
* [http://www.punknews.org Punknews.org] Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.punknews.org/reviews.php?op=albumreview&id=4533 link]
Last album = "Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes"
(2001)
This album = "Potemkin City Limits"
(2005)
Next album =

"Potemkin City Limits" is the fourth full length album by the Canadian band Propagandhi, released on October 18, 2005. It was released on the band's own G7 Welcoming Committee Records label in Canada, and Fat Wreck Chords elsewhere.

The title of the album is an allusion to "Potemkin village", a political term referring to a false construct intended to hide an undesirable situation.

The opening track, "A Speculative Fiction," won the first annual ECHO Songwriting Prize from the Society of Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN). [cite news | url = http://www.manitobamusic.com/index.php?pid=10200&mid=10200&rid=2144 | date = 2006-12-18 | accessdate = 2007-02-22 | title = A Look Back at the Year in Manitoba Music | work = Manitoba Music News ] The band pledged to use the $5000 prize to make donations to the Haiti Action Network and The Welcome Place, an organization in Winnipeg (which they'd previously done volunteer work for) which helps refugees start new lives in Manitoba. [cite news | url = http://g7welcomingcommittee.com/news/2006/09/propagandhi-approach-binary-system/ | date = 2006-09-10 | accessdate = 2008-08-02 | title = Propagandhi: acceptance speech? Sustained applause? | work = G7 Welcoming Committee Records ]

Track listing

# "A Speculative Fiction" – 4:14
# "Fixed Frequencies" – 3:58
# "Fedallah's Hearse" – 4:00
# "Cut into the Earth" – 3:41
# "Bringer of Greater Things" – 2:45
# "America's Army™ (Die Jugend Marschiert)" – 4:42
# "Rock for Sustainable Capitalism" – 4:12
# "Impending Halfhead" – 1:14
# "Life at Disconnect" – 3:23
# "Name and Address Withheld" – 3:21
# "Superbowl Patriot XXXVI (Enter the Mendicant)" – 0:36
# "Iteration" – 5:19

Cover artwork

The artwork, a girl playing jump rope on a chalk-drawings covered street, is a piece of art called "Children's Games" from the anarchist artist Eric Drooker. [cite web | url = http://www.drooker.com/paintings/pages/Children's-Games.html | title = Children's Games | publisher = Eric Drooker | accessdate = 2007-02-22 ]

References

External links

* [http://www.propagandhi.com/lyrics/potemkin Official Lyrics]
* [http://www.g7welcomingcommittee.com/discography/g7043.php album information at G7 Welcoming Committee Records]
* [http://www.americasarmy.ca "americasarmy.ca"] , homepage for the song "America's Army (Die Jugend Marschiert)"
* [http://drooker.com/paintings/pages/Children's-Games.html "Children's Games"] , cover by Eric Drooker