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Description

Negativland's newest conceptual project is a very different move in a very different 'found art' direction than the anti-corporate, anti-copyright creations they're most known for, charting new territory for the group in many ways. DEATHSENTENCES OF THE POLISHED AND STRUCTURALLY WEAK is a 6x12', 64-page full-color owner's manual which comes with a 45-minute CD soundtrack. Packaged inside a large die-cut automotive courtesy envelope, this project is a poignant, voyeuristic, disturbing, and occasionally funny glimpse into lives which may be very different from your own... or eerily similar. The CD, the first studio full-length by Negativland since 1997, is a meticulously-layered, ever-shifting electro-acoustic soundscape created to accompany the pages of the book. No bass lines, no melody, no dialogue, no singing, no beat -the sound of Negativland's studio being destroyed in a car wreck.