Tell Me I'm Not Crazy
The new Zero Tep album, “Tell Me I’m Not Crazy”, is out now! It’s a compilation of vocal tracks from the last few years, an electro-punk and hip-hop brew. Download or stream it wherever you get your music.
There is also a supplemental film up on YouTube, featuring music videos, unreleased music, mixed media experiments, and poetry and essays adapted for screen.
“Tell Me I’m Not Crazy” unloads on political and philosophical topics, collecting tracks from 2019 to 2023. While the pandemic could be considered a catalyst for the album, it barely appears. Instead, the album works at breakneck speed through crises in American education, Information Age psyche, wealth inequality and neoliberal failure, and the state of the music industry - all within a kinetic 33 minutes.
Denver-based musician and fellow experimentalist F-ETHER makes an appearance on the track “On and On”! Fans will recognize “On and On” as an old MC Architecture track, an ex-moniker that has now graduated to full integration in the Zero Tep canon.