Hit Bargain is the Los Angeles band featuring members of Beach Fossils and Cold Beat, the quartet is known for their sardonic explorations of gender, power dynamics, and aging action heroes. The group returns with their new album, A Dog A Deer A Seal on November 10th via Get Better Records. The album is named for the recipe of Chinese three-penis wine, and an apocryphal chimera representing the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the U.S. government.

Written and recorded in the heady before-times of 2019 and early 2020, the album is described as a skittish, escitalopram-fueled snapshot of a country on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The deck is stacked with active shooter drills, tech bro millionaires, true crime, general anxiety, and impending catastrophe. In short, nothing much different than now.

Album highlight “Immaculate Vaxxer”, singer Nora Singh menacingly wavers “A warning / Or a premonition to be ignored / Superstition buoying us to impossible shores” against Mike Barron’s ragged guitar stabs, while bass player Sean Monaghan and drummer Anton Hochheim create a roiling, brackish undercurrent that tugs the listener along. The chorus of “My body is not my own, It’s a host” is an exhausted but saintly submission to the unpredictability of ungovernable chronic disease.

Hit Bargain
A Dog A Deer A Seal
Get Better Records
Tracklist

1. Immaculate Vaxxer
2. Hair Trigger
3. Pressure
4. Degree Decree
5. Cloud Cover
6. Worst
7. Small Radius
8. True Crime
9. Cheat Grass
10. A DOG A DEER A SEAL

“Degree Decree” Lyrics:

In the belly of
Intestinal
Plastic strangulation
Click on through
The trail of a
Solitary emoji tear
For a smiling sea mammal
Headlines ephemeral
Water war
Boiling point
Critical careless
Car less
Facial recognition
Digital encampment
You and me and CCTV
We’re sorry we used up all the trees
And killed all the bees
We’re sorry we used up all the trees
And killed all the bees
We’re sorry we used up all the trees
And killed all the bees
We’re sorry we used up all the trees
And killed all the bees
Every coffee cup
Fast food condo
E waste prescription drug
Pissed into the ocean
Of course you’re pissed
Of course you’re pissed
100 billionaire tears
Can pool up in
A self driving car
That really listens
Oh man, it really listens
Watch it go
Straight into the wall
We’re sorry we used up all the trees
And killed all the bees
We’re sorry we used up all the trees
And killed all the bees
We’re sorry we used up all the trees
And killed all the bees
We’re sorry we used up all the trees
And killed all the bees
Controlled by a decimal point
You dip the bucket in
You take a reading
Of how the sea is feeling

Pre order A Dog A Deer A Seal by Hit Bargain HERE