the dismemberment plan

a people's history of the dismemberment plan

'The Dismemberment Plan will never die. As long as CDs remain unscratched, record player needles remain functional and mp3s remain online, The Plan will live forever.

For the people and by the people, this final record is a compilation of remixes of the best of The Plan. It is exactly the way the band was destined to go out. It's weird, quirky and not even the biggest of fans could have predicted this. Above that, it's absolutely amazing, a downright beautiful epitaph. It sums up the career of the band perfectly and is this ultimate, Buddhist sort of release, letting go of ownership of the music and returning it back to the people.

"A People's History of The Dismemberment Plan" may be one of the best records released this year, although all of its material is recycled. It's concise and accurately descriptive in the ways it deconstructs and reconstructs the band's art. It's quintessential musical postmodernism. It's rife with aural poetic sentiments that embrace the love the fans show for this band. This is a culmination of the emotional attachment that both band and fans have put in to The Dis Plan over the years.

The Plan will forever be known for its cutting edge, its absolute ability to go where most other musicians fear to tread. They are D.C. musicians who have taken from their surrounding scene to create something so different, so unique that few if any other bands sound like them. They are a musical anomaly, an irrational happening that generations of fans still to come will only be able to wonder and marvel at the remnants of this spectacle.

"A People's History" is a welcome addition and possibly the most indigenous member of this family. It is the best they have to offer, recreated by the best the kids have to offer.

The Dismemberment Plan was one of the most seminal of '90s indie rock bands and they will truly be missed, but will forever live on through both their catalogue of works, highlighted by "A People's History."