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POS releases 9-minute song about transplant and more

Posted by Loren on March 13, 2016

POS releases 9-minute song about transplant and more
photo by Scott Wilkinson

P.O.S has released a 9-minte song, “sleepdrone/superposition,” with guest appearances from Allan Kingdom, Astronautalis, Eric Mayson, Kathleen Hanna, Hard_R, Lydia Liza, Lizzo, Nicholas L. Perez, and his son.

Coming two years after his kidney transplant, the song is personal, yet social and political in tradition with his body of work. The song is posted after the jump. 

P.O.S recently played a handful of dates around the Upper Midwest.

POS releases 9-minute song about transplant and more
photo by Scott Wilkinson

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