Potemkin City Limits


Potemkin City Limits is the fourth full-length album by the Canadian punk rock band Propagandhi, released on October 18, 2005 through G7 Welcoming Committee Records in Canada, and Fat Wreck Chords elsewhere. It is the second Propagandhi release on their own label and the last on Fat Wreck Chords.
The title of the album is an allusion to Potemkin village, a political term referring to a false construct intended to hide an undesirable situation.
The opening track, "A Speculative Fiction", won the first annual ECHO Songwriting Prize from the Society of Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers of Canada. The band pledged to use the $5000 prize to make donations to the Haiti Action Network and The Welcome Place, an organization in Winnipeg which helps refugees start new lives in Manitoba.

Cover artwork

The artwork, a girl playing jump rope on a chalk-drawings covered street, is a piece of art called Children's Games from the anarchist artist Eric Drooker.

Track listing

  1. "A Speculative Fiction" – 4:14
  2. "Fixed Frequencies" – 3:58
  3. "Fedallah's Hearse" – 4:00
  4. "Cut into the Earth" – 3:41
  5. "Bringer of Greater Things" – 2:45
  6. "America's Army™ " – 4:42
  7. "Rock for Sustainable Capitalism" – 4:12
  8. "Impending Halfhead" – 1:14
  9. "Life at Disconnect" – 3:23
  10. "Name and Address Withheld" – 3:21
  11. "Superbowl Patriot XXXVI " – 0:36
  12. "Iteration" – 5:19

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