Sad Tax - Radical Pastel Mercy (2017)

Well this year's RPM Challenge album was one of the smoothest I think I've had in the last 9 years of doing them. Lyrics flowed easy, I didn't have to fight a pile of chords into making sense, and even though I had to sit out the first week to finish off a different project I still didn't feel rushed and I'm reasonably happy/proud of the results. After completing the first couple rpm challenges it became less about it being a "challenge" where I'm proving to myself or to others that I can do a thing and more about the importance of a creative ritual in one's life. Like a type of lent where I create a thing for the world that nobody really asked for and celebrate by listening to what everybody else in my life made in that same time.

Tracks:
01. Sad Tax - List of Musical Grievances (3:29)
02. Sad Tax - A Brand New Kind of Truth (dictator waltz 1) (2:44)
03. Sad Tax - Life Goes On For the Perpetrators of Our Destruction (3:34)
04. Sad Tax - Your Eyes Are Mansions for Old Ghosts (2:52)
05. Sad Tax - $24 and a Paradise of Options Await Us (2:39)
06. Sad Tax - An Amazingly Formidable Posture (2:24)
07. Sad Tax - My Dreams Have Suddenly Become Incredibly Relevant (3:55)
08. Sad Tax - Garden of Hearts and Minds (5:01)
09. Sad Tax - A Village of Strange Romantics Smoulders in the Distance (2:29)
10. Sad Tax - These Opinions Make Me Unique (4:03)
11. Sad Tax - 11-sad_tax-itaes_gonna_be_close_to_the_end_right (4:44)
12. Sad Tax - The Best Ways To Kill A Fascist (dictator waltz 2) (5:28)
13. Sad Tax - I Found Wealth and Opportunity in This Secret Mass Grave (13:05)