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This single is a just a taste of what's to come on passage's highly anticipated, official anticon full-length. The jingle-core, golden-voiced passage took the dark humor hard way out of New Hampshire. Arriving in California with a demo no one could refuse, he and his fellow restiform bodies (telephone jim jesus and the bomarr monk) proved that they were missing from the anticon swell. passage was one of the first bard-hoppers to be inspired by the anticon sound, and the last to be absorbed by its machine. He revs his throat as the youngest gun, and proves what happens when fire meets what's awkward and endearing about the cynical nice guy.

• The lead single to the late-May 2004 full length release The Forcefield Kids
  
• Front man for restiform bodies, appeared on anticon's "We Aint Fessin (Double Quotes)" and DJ Krush's The Message at the Depth
  
• Has performed with DJ Krush, Kid606, Cex, Unicorns, Stars as Eyes, Aceyalone, Abstract Rude, Animal Collective, Atmosphere, Jay Lesser, Blechtom from Blechdom, Books on Tape, Barry Andrews (Shriekback)
  
• US tour in summer '04

passages is the kind of electro-new-wave-industrialfolk- hospital-waiting-room hope-hop that you can dance or die to. The self-produced Forcefield Kids is full of distorted lo-bit jiggy drums; chopped-up, backward harps and French horns; distinctive synths with envelopes and filters; acoustic guitars; playful, heavy words; and catchy-ass melodies. passage capably references and blends a seemingly infinite library of influences. Who would have thought that someone could create a hardcore, new wave, melodious fast-raps record, with sweeter-than-candy indie-pop hooks? The Forcefield Kids is proudly and without apology a genre-defying record that just about embodies "the anticon sound."

The songs on The Forcefield Kids speak on: the educational system, the post-cold war cold war, the legacy of white oppressorship, Dr. Laura, childhood, child molestation, loneliness and longing. They are sung with hungry desperation and darkly humorous undertones. It is a middle school kid asking permission to sharpen his pencil, only to return to his seat and put his own eye out. On "Creature in the Classroom," an unintentional anthem for disaffected youth, passage bitterly revisits grade school misery with visceral lines like "Tin teeth, shin guard, first string rich kids get the indoor-soccer flat soles/special needs kids get the med-head puppet show at little round tables with grad school ass holes." The record is filled with images of invalids, radiation, cold hospitals, lost love and dreaded, never-ending Sunday afternoons filled with self-loathing regrets. A highlight is the dark pop infection called "Old Aunt Mary," sounding like something off Beck's One Foot in the Grave; fresh for the second millennium, passage sings: "I won't ever sell you out, like a fish thrown back, in a double knit tweed and a bad men's scent, but I'm in love with a defeatist and I'm wild for magazines. I'm not just some boy breathing down your neck, I'm absolutely the most important man in the world and my fucking kids will play two sports a piece." There is God and Hell in this record, the guts of a dead or dying angel.

• Frontman for Restiform Bodies, appeared on We Ain't Fessin' (double quotes) and on DJ Krush's The Message at the Depthin 2003
  
• Toured the country with sole of anticon
  
• Performed with: DJ Krush, Kid606, Cex, Stars As Eyes, Gold Chains, Blechdom from Blechdom, Jay Lesser, Books on Tape, Aceyalone, Abstract Rude, Atmosphere, Animal Collective, Grand Buffet, Dahawney Troof, Barry Andrews (of Shriekback)
  

  30-second MP3 excerpts:

  Forcefield Intro
  In the Bio Burbs
  Creature in the Classroom
  The Pins in the Bowels of the Charmed Design
  Old Aunt Mary
  Free Luv, from Left Field
  Whine Money
  The Unstrung Harp
  The Kareoki (sp?) Kiss Ass
  Put Together, Play, Red Ferrari Calendar
  Jail 4 Lil Geniuses
  Duck'n'Cover
  19911
  The Unspectacular White Boy Slave Song
  Spring '97
  Suffragette (sp?)
  Reagan's Chest
  All the News That's Fit to Print
  Scarefilm
  Poem to the Hospital
  Pail of Air

  If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the link below should open the iTunes application and take you to the iTunes Music Service page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks:

  Passage "The Forcefield Kids" (anticon)

  For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page.

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