Potemkin City Limits
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| Studio album by Propagandhi | ||||
| Released | October 18, 2005 | |||
| Recorded | in a warehouse, a basement and a bedroom. | |||
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| Length | 41:25 | |||
| Label | G7 Welcoming Committee/Fat Wreck Chords | |||
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Potemkin City Limits is the fourth full length album by the Canadian punk rock band Propagandhi, released on October 18, 2005 through G7 Welcoming Committee Records in Canada, and Fat Wreck Chords elsewhere. It is the second Propagandhi release on their own label and the last on Fat Wreck Chords.
The title of the album is an allusion to Potemkin village, a political term referring to a false construct intended to hide an undesirable situation.
The opening track, "A Speculative Fiction," won the first annual ECHO Songwriting Prize from the Society of Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN). The band pledged to use the $5000 prize to make donations to the Haiti Action Network and The Welcome Place, an organization in Winnipeg (which they'd previously done volunteer work for) which helps refugees start new lives in Manitoba.
Chris Hannah, guitarist and lead singer of Propagandhi, has stated that he considers Potemkin City Limits to be his personal favourite Propagandhi album.
The artwork, a girl playing jump rope on a chalk-drawings covered street, is a piece of art called Children's Games from the anarchist artist Eric Drooker.
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