Oooooooohhhhhh it’s coming it’s coming it’s coming!!!!!!  We’ve been doing things like buying groceries and hand scrubbing our floors (basically acting as our own nannies) to keep our minds from the nervousness of this thing.  But just to pump you up just a bit, here’s the track with their own synopses and cover art…except of course no cover art and synopsis for the intro.  Pshhh…what do you think we are…geeks?

1. HihowRu (Intro)

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2. Gentleman’s Kool-Aid :: Insofar as the irony of “retro-futurist 80s rebel pop” was too overwhelming to recreate in sound or iconography, the band known as iLL-Literacy has either speciously or insightfully (maybe both) opted for sample-inspired, bass-driven electric gospel funk in the form of their new single, “Gentleman’s Kool-Aid.”  The soymilkbuttasmooth lead track is both a reflection on the warped and often glennbeckianized historical narratives of what it means to be a “gentleman”, and perhaps a confession of the fragile ecology of male ego.  Let’s call it pollution of the Egology, otherwise known as “drinking thine own Kool-Aid.”

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3. The HereNow :: According to the relativity of simultaneity, it is impossible to say in an absolute sense whether two things can happen at the same time if they are separated by space.  However, the band of funky fermions known as iLL-Literacy insists that everything and everyone share a single moment – that we are all logged into a grand social network known as the HereNow.  It is the central hub where our avatar souls bend time in hopes to save the day, and where our common date with Destiny is to avoid becoming dated.  As coy fishes in the flow of time are poisoned with mercury, and Pluto is denied planetarianship, it seems that our moments (like all other natural resources) are plundered not with consideration for the Now, but fear of the Future.  By way of syllogism, the question then becomes:  when frozen in time, can thou keepest it cool? Indeed, where the electron is negative, iLL-Literacy’s spin is positive. And positively charged thou shalt be.  Fusing their talents with the vocals of the photonic phenom known as Jeremy “Passion” Manongdo, the iLLs beckon thine to come hither and join “The HereNow”–a P/G-Funktified ode to being present.  Lean in for the moment.

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4. Finding Emo :: At one point, the unpredictable and dangerous waters of “taking yourself too seriously” pushed the band of clownfish known as iLL-Literacy to self-seclude in the shallows of electric gospel funk.  Paranoid after a nearby planktonic community was swallowed for being too “deep,” iLL-Literacy never let their emotion, popularly known as Emo, beyond the jagged coral of the Great Barrier Reef.  That is, until the day “retro-futurist 80s rebel pop” took Emo to a place where most feelings can’t breathe–the Club.  With help from this generation’s short-term memory, watch these clever crustaceans snap back at industry sharks in Finding Emo–an epic journey to rescue emotional content from the artificial habitat of so many starfish.

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5. Circus Nights :: Across time and space, in both proverbial and adjectival noun designations, the FastLife has been rumored to be the shit.  The FastLife is not just the speed and velocity at which narcissists make poor decisions, but the unyielding taste for all things fiscally, environmentally and grammatically unstable.  It’s like Airborne for the common cold, if Airborne remained an unnecessary vitamin C supplement that didn’t really help the common cold but everyone took anyways, and the common cold was the desolate plane of whichever imagination imagined the cubicle.  The FastLife has less to do with self-indulgence, and so much more to do with a concept of the flaneur, the “botanist of the sidewalk” in a digitiLL world.  Or rather, if today’s said digitiLL world is a nastyfreak show and YouTube is a hall of mirrors, then the band of carnies known as iLL-Literacy feels most at home in the HereNow–they just want some funnel cake.   Along with ringmaster Rufus Redbone taming the chorus, watch as the members of iLL-Literacy spike their Kool-Aid with a ferris wheel’s worth of Airborne in Circus Nights – a proclamation of desire for the sexy cyclops known as fAME.

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ok, i’m gonna go steam some rice and listen to the kernels pop.

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