Album cover of Escape-ism’s full length debut, Introduction to Escape-ism. Released through Merge Records.
Escape-ism is the solo project of veteran punk artist Ian Svenonius (Nation Of Ulysses, the Make-Up, Weird War, XYZ, Chain And The Gang, among others).
“Iron Curtain” is off of the 2017 full-length debut, the appropriately titled Introduction to Escape-ism. The Iron Curtain may have ended in 1991 and the Berlin Wall may have been torn down in 1989, but the lyrical references to “build a wall” and “iron curtain” can apply equally to Trump’s America and its isolationist foreign policy.