



Instead, they find themselves right at the center of it.It’s not Taylor Swift’s Folklore, or even Beyonce’s Lemonade, but No Frills has dropped what is undoubtably the biggest surprise album ever by a major Canadian grocery retailer.īuilding on the success of its “A Cart Apart” track, which has garnered nearly 2.3 million views on YouTube since it dropped in May, the Loblaw Companies Limited banner has just released what it describes as the “definitive discount collection.”ĭeveloped with agency partner John St., Haulin’ State of Mind is a 13-track album featuring grocery-specific songs like “Bananas” (sample lyric: “Bananas/the portable fruit/put ‘em in a smoothie/or your cold-pressed juice”) and “Low Bills” (“cashier’s name is Rita/says the prices won’t be beat, yeah/free parking, forget the street, ha/new deals every week, uh”).Īnd unlike another surprise album, U2’s Songs of Innocence, this one won’t show up on your computer or phone unnannounced. When he wakes up in hospital after an explosion and finds that his wife and son have mysteriously vanished, Richard realizes: he and his family have become more than just bystanders in a storm of rivaling ideas pertaining humankind’s salvation between dystopian reality and digital utopia. Richard Nolan is one of the few journalists openly criticizing this development. Drones and humanoid robots replace humans in the public sector, everything is interconnected, surveillance has become omnipresent. Governments and companies promise remedies through technological progress. Lack of resources, illnesses caused by polluted air and water, crime on the rise, war. When mind and machine become one – what will remain of humanity?īerlin, 2048 – The world is on the brink.
