When you are about to release the biggest post-rock album of your career and you are afraid no one will hear it because social media is broken...

Democracy already died in the U.S. in 2010, when the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are people and money is free speech. For 15 years, the ultra-rich, with unlimited funding, have been buying power. Both parties are bought and paid for at the highest levels. You are in the bad place.