New Noise Magazine is extremely excited to be teaming up with Cassus to bring forth the premiere of their track “Curriculum.” The song is frantic as all hell with a dense blend of melodies roaming through the track’s gritty and unrelenting atmosphere. The track’s pulsing outro leads to an emotional out of an ending, fed up with the current system. The song is off of the UK group’s upcoming record, Separation Anxiety, which will be released on April 13th via Dog Knights Productions.
“Curriculum is about the political undercurrent in school education in the UK. Subjects are taught separately so knowledge can be measured for suitability to specialist job roles, but this approach obscures the deeper connections between fields. These separations channel our thinking toward an individualistic, fragmentary view of the world – discouraging interdisciplinary cooperation and making it harder to see a bigger picture – to form our own values and start autonomous projects. School teaches us that ‘facts’ are all powerful, that ‘the way things are’ written in textbooks is the final word – despite acknowledging that progress requires change. It teaches the government’s ideas of right and wrong as gospel, despite claiming religious neutrality. School trains us to fit into institutions and bureaucracies, to accept other people’s rules and avoid asking questions. It does not help us understand how these institutions actually work, whose interests they represent, or why we should accept them in the first place. It teaches us a learned helplessness in the face of ourselves, so that we defer to the confidence of established hierarchy rather than seeing its ‘objectivity’ for the self-affirming subjectivity that it really is: no more right or wrong than countless possible alternatives.”
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