Lazy Crapification

On the twentieth anniversary of their founding in 1988, DUPOBS release

Win Some Lose Some, their fourth album since reuniting in 2002. This is make it or break it time for DUPOBS, a group that has gained critical recognition from the likes of Scotland’s Momus and Japan’s DeliciouSweets, but has yet to deliver a top-40 hit. Hot on the heels of 2007’s industrial-tinged Le Sex L’Ove, DUPOBS return to their rock roots, with a tip of the hat to Foreigner, Loverboy, and John Cougar Mellencrap. Containing more than a few super-catchy pop-rock tunes, Win Some Lose Some could be the breakthrough DUPOBS has been waiting for. And it’s not just the music. This time, DUPOBS pulls out all the stops, with innovative album packaging – made by a groundbreaking new technique called “lazy crapification” – and a fan-donated video for “Our Friendship Is Going To Grow”:

Other tracks with hit potential include “Run Down Home Town (Doin’ Good By His Hometown)”, and “We’re Just A Bunch Of Fun Guys Until We Kick Your Head In, Fat”. Keep your eyes and ears open in the weeks and months to come, as DUPOBS release Win Some Lose Some song by song on Last FM. Spread the word and help DUPOBS make history by giving regressive music the profile it deserves.

The emergence of DUPOBS has undermined any analysis of language as a synchronic system.  This emergence demands reevaluation of the verbal sign.  Whereas other languages depend on fairly static signification, the language of DUPOBS is free of constraints: a signified is rarely referred to by the same signifier twice.  This allows speakers to more accurately express the inner sound – as Kandinsky might call it – of signifieds as they are perceived.  While one thing may be a “k-khlaughredloeux” to one person, it is rather a “hououleu!” to someone else.  To use a Marxian paradigm, the language of DUPOBS has immediate use-value for self expression.  Exchange-value – in that there is a medium of exchange – is almost nil.  If static signification is the analogue of oppressive capital, then the language of DUPOBS is anti-capital.  It is a good idea to speak this language.  DUPOBS’ new album will be announced here shortly.