Superchunk Combine With Fucked Up For Charity Single Our Work Is Done/Total Eclipse
Tuesday, 13 November 2018
Written by Jon Stickler
Superchunk are back with their third in a series of limited edition benefit 7-inches, Our Work Is Done/Total Eclipse, on Merge Records.
New track Our Work Is Done is their first since the February release of 'What a Time to Be Alive' and features powerful guest vocals from Fucked Up's Damian Abraham, while b-side Total Eclipse is a Klaus Nomi cover.
As with their previous benefit singles, I Got Cut/Up Against the Wall, benefitting Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, and Break the Glass/Mad World, benefitting the Southern Poverty Law Center, this surprise single is available for purchase immediately with proceeds going to Bill McKibben’s climate-change advocacy non-profit 350.org. Superchunk's Mac McCaughan said:
"Our Work Is Done is an imaginary conversation between the last two living residents of a hot and dying planet. Damian Abraham from the band Fucked Up lends his gravitas to the situation. Total Eclipse is a song about a different kind of holocaust, originally performed by Klaus Nomi. When I saw the film Urgh! A Music War, the Nomi clip blew my mind. I didn’t know what to make of him or the performance. Truly a unique artist trying to convey the urgency of several emergencies at once.
"The news these days is overwhelming, and sometimes it’s hard to focus on the larger issues we are all collectively facing. Climate change is transforming the world in dangerous ways and requires immediate action. The proceeds from the single will go to Bill McKibben’s 350.org, and we stand by them as they build the global grassroots climate movement that can hold our leaders accountable to the realities of science and the principles of justice."
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