''12 Crass Songs'' is the fourth album by

anti-folk Anti-folk (sometimes referred to as unfolk) is a music genre that emerged in the 1980s in response to the remnants of the 1960s folk music scene. Anti-folk music was made to mock the perceived seriousness of the time's mainstream music scene, a ...

artist

Jeffrey Lewis Jeffrey Lewis (born November 20, 1975) is an American singer-songwriter and comic book artist. Early life Lewis was born in New York City and grew up on the Lower East Side. He attended State University of New York at Purchase, graduating in ...

. It was released on October 1, 2007 on

Rough Trade Records Rough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London, England. It was formed in 1976 by Geoff Travis who had opened a record store off Ladbroke Grove. Having successfully promoted and sold records by punk rock and early post-pun ...

. The title is literal, as all 12 songs on the album were written and first recorded by the band

Crass Crass were an English art collective and punk rock band formed in Epping, Essex in 1977, who promoted anarchism as a political ideology, a way of life, and a resistance movement. Crass popularised the anarcho-punk movement of the punk s ...

Track listing

#"End Result" #"I Ain't Thick, It's Just a Trick" #"Systematic Death" #"The Gasman Cometh" #"Banned from the Roxy" #"Where Next Columbus?" #"Do They Owe Us a Living?" #"Securicor" #"Demoncrats" #"Big A, Little A" #"Punk Is Dead" #"Walls (Fun in the Oven)"

Origin

In a 2013 interview with Audio Antihero Records, Jeffrey Lewis explained his motivation for the album:

References

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