Doublethink Prism feat. Mathas ‘Business As Usual’

Returning after their 2018 debut A Prism Inside Your Pregnant Mind, Australian hip-hop / spoken word / electronic duo Doublethink Prism will release the first taste of their upcoming second album in a team up with legendary wordsmith Mathas, the new single Business as Usual will be released June 22nd, 2022 via Stock Records.

Embodying the twisted mentality of relentless energy company tycoons, Business as Usual is a dark tongue-in-cheek satire of their need for profit over sanity. Can you smell the smoke? Can you SELL the smoke? Picture that meme of doggo former (!) Australian prime-minister Scott Morrison sitting in a dining room on fire holding his beloved piece of coal proclaiming ‘This is fine!’

Taking it straight to the man themselves, Business as Usual is accompanied by a new music video that sees Doublethink Prism and Mathas busting into the foyer of Woodside - Western Australia’s No.1 tax-dodging climate criminals - to do a protest in full business attire and being kicked out by security guards. 

Delivering the song with a crowd of protestors on their doorstep, the video is a hilarious activist injunction into the heart of the beast pointing out the injustices of their proposed Scarborough Gas Hub in the Burrup peninsula which will produce 1.69 Billion Tonnes of greenhouse gasses in 25 years and destroy sacred aboriginal sites in north western Australia.

Doublethink Prism is the duo of Perth producer and multi-instrumentalist Steven Alyian and spoken word artist Splodge (Marcus John). Their second album Malakut Golliwog will be released later in 2022 on Stock Records.

CREDITS

Director / Camera / Post-Production - Steven Alyian

Photography by Miles Tweedie

Special Thanks - Anthony Collins

Thanks to all the all the campaigners and activists working hard for a safe planet who came down to help out with this video

LYRICS

It’s just business as usual

SPLODGE

Check it out: it’s my business plan Sand blows through Afghanistan and drops diamonds in the palm of my hand Business as Usual I sweep my hand across coral reefs, fishes gurgle with disease I take the resources that I please, bring it all to its wooden knees Just business as usual

MATHAS

Keep your cloak on, don’t window into yourself too raw Trust in subordinance, in us your health insured Warship awkward future, par-for course, whole world recruitment, rally hordes of living breathing tortured articles to nuisance Embalmed in apathy, calmed to catalogues. Pressuring our diamond into epilogue’s just business as usual...

SPLODGE:

You don’t understand the pills you took to take away the blues I grew, money trampled underfoot just business as usual.

MATHAS

Rust-bucket in blue tux, soft sheer of the ku klux, swill and spit whodunit where the clues run, like ink quills for the ho-hum, where the sin runners are big guns for the kingdom, and the king dumb as sin with a trust fund. My plus ones, they stone face, they only like me for my road case, bunch of hustling elbows out tussling to catch my bouquet on my big day, with my big head, brandishing my brand like say a dick smith or a big kev, but far more of a dickhead. Nail and hammered in actual. Flag waving like paid ads. Dripping in affluence. Catch-phrasing the kettle black. Warped mirrors and smoke bombs. Broad day suckering candy robs. Open-handed gamble, match-fixing with cattle prods. Can you smell the smoke? Better yet... can you sell the smoke?

SPLODGE

I’m a golden haired boy I’ll sell you back your dreams Can you hear that iceburg dropping? Can you hear that iceburg dropping? This is fine. This is fine. This is fine…

MATHAS

Light em up and set em off!

SPLODGE

Where’s the promise in your eyes? Where’s the promise in your eyes?!

MATHAS

Lapping round the dribble in the gene pool Cooler killing bets around the green felt Blind with envy tirade on parade in cheap jewels deafen benefit in studious it don’t attract a keen sell Right? Can you smell the smoke? Better yet... can you sell the smoke?

SPLODGE

ALL I SEE IS FIRE Business as Usual! ---

Learn More

https://doublethinkprism.bandcamp.com/