Anarchy
Masquerade
Anarchy Masquerade is the debut album from The Undead Poets. A musical exploration ignited by the question: "What if Percy Bysshe Shelley were in a punk band?"
Every track on this record is adapted from a public domain poem, ranging from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s furious political broadside The Masque of Anarchy to Longfellow’s quiet confrontation with mortality in Mezzo Cammin. The source material spans two centuries — Romantic rebels, Victorian elegists, transcendentalist firebrands. Their words still carry weight and apply to our modern society.
This isn’t poetry set to music. It’s poetry thrown into a mosh pit and swinging for survival.
Anarchy Masquerade is political fury wrestling with existential dread, and neither one gets a happy ending. From the rolling grief of Dead Love to the sardonic nihilism of One Big Laugh Track, from the crumbling empire of The Wizard of Ozzy to the defiant forward motion of Let the Dead Bury the Dead, the album asks the same question the poets were always asking — what are we supposed to do with the few years allotted to each of us?
- Anarchy Masquerade The Masque of Anarchy — Percy Bysshe Shelley (1819)
- Natural Lawman Lucifer in Starlight — George Meredith (1883)
- Simple Lies The Indian Burying Ground — Philip Freneau (1788)
- Half-Life Mezzo Cammin — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1842)
- One Big Laugh Track Solitude — Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1883)
- Dead Love Dead Love — Algernon Charles Swinburne (1866)
- The Wizard of Ozzy Ozymandias — Percy Bysshe Shelley (1818)
- Golden Rot Aladdin — James Russell Lowell (1868)
- Let the Dead Bury the Dead A Psalm of Life — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1838)
- For All We Have and Are For All We Have and Are — Rudyard Kipling (1914)
Lyrics, Artistic Direction & Production: J.J. Cole
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