Chad Matheny has been making music for a long time under the pseudonym Emperor X, but this new album, Oversleepers International, takes on a much more political and protest-oriented dimension, as indicated by the first single from the album, "Wasted on the Senate Floor." Chad blends Billy Bragg's punk songwriting tradition with William Basinski's experimental minimalism, revealing his obsessions with transport infrastructure, modernist literature, and lo-fi Chicago house tracks.