Hani Shahid – “Draft Dodgerz 2025” single cover
Hani Shahid returns to give us “Draft Dodgerz 2025”, a bright, jubilant and raw good riddance to the post-9/11 “question nothing” attitude of Americans towards their government, signaling a new era in politics:
The harm done to life by the stars and the stripes, you cannot hide. If you know history, they cannot lie: millions died.
The single cover takes Kiyoshi Kuromiya’s poster from 1968, and reworks it, making the young man into an undead flower-child, signaling the rebirth and connection to the dormant unrest of the late sixties and early seventies in the US.
Musically, it’s the brash slam of an early opener for the Yardbirds, with riffing 808s and piercing distortion over fast, bouncing beats.
The original 1968 poster inspiring the single art. As said in an earlier Fonts In Use contribution, the text here is so generic it could be any number of faces.
