Gottlieb Release “Optimised Child” Single & Video

Los Angeles anarcho-punk collective Gottlieb have today returned with their new single and video, Optimized Child, that is the third release from their forthcoming debut album, The Far Fallen Fruit, that will be released on the 1st May via Quiet Panic Records. Raw, confrontational, and unflinchingly topical, Optimized Child zeroes in on the mounting pressure placed on younger generations to succeed within an increasingly unforgiving system. Driven by jagged riffs, pummeling rhythms, and a relentless sense of urgency, the track delivers one of the album’s most pointed critiques.

“This song is a commentary on the competitive pipeline that children are expected to fulfill at earlier and earlier ages. As American capitalism continues to starve a growing swath of people, parents have no choice but to treat their neighbors as competition to best set up their own children. This dynamic creates an ‘optimized’ child; productive, efficient, earning, and unexamined in pursuit of success. But of course, that success was never coming.” (vocalist Andrew Pescara)