Alan Moore debut single released by Occupation Records
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Comic book author, whose V for Vendetta mask is an Occupy symbol, likens today's stark economic divides to work of killer
The Decline of English Murder is a gloomy and at times opaque ballad that likens the stark economic inequities challenged by Occupy to the work of a killer. It is released by Occupation Records, the musical spin-off from the protest group, which has already collaborated with Radiohead's Thom Yorke and members of Massive Attack, among others.
The song, with Moore half-speaking, half-singing his words to a musical backing by Joe Brown, is as mournful as you might expect from something that namechecks a motorway service station near Preston in its first line. It offers a pair of bleak vignettes: first a presumably homeless young woman at the service station, drying her hair in the washroom before nursing a cup of tea for an hour; then an older man who dies in a cold spell because he could not afford his heating bill. These are contrasted with the wealth of City bankers, with the final lines:I rather like this.
"Your average psychopath at least kills with a hammer or brick / And not with greed and incompetence / And after two or three years maybe they'll express remorse."
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Listen: Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta), Releases Song in Support of Occupy Wall Street