''Free'' is the sixth studio album by

Negativland Negativland is an American experimental music band which originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. They took their name from a Neu! track, while their record label (Seeland Records) is named after another Neu! track. The core ...

. In the wake of leaving

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, Negativland revived their self-owned

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label, signed a distribution deal with

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, and released this album. The main topics are about liberty, the media, and what it means to be free. "Free" has found sounds, stories, and songs about a well-known convenience store, torture, the quality of urban life, Cadillacs, firearms, the bible, interstate trucking, geriatric discomfort, big dogs,

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, alcohol consumption, driving in circles, death, organ buttons, religious dialectics, and the truth about

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Track listing

#"Freedom's Waiting" – 2:21 #"Cityman" – 5:56 #"The Gun and the Bible" – 2:48 #"Truck Stop Drip Drop" – 4:00 #"The Bottom Line" – 3:25 #"Crumpled Farm" – 4:23 #"Happy the Harmonica" – 10:01 (Cover of a piece by

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) #"Pip Digs Pep" – 4:51 #"We Are Driven" – 7:04 #"View to the Sun" – 3:58 #"I Am God" – 5:19 #"Our National Anthem" – 4:51

External links

''Free''
on the Negativland official discography. * ''Free''entry at

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