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From a recent interview by Grant Horne:

Q: Tell me about Trucker. It's my favorite composition of yours to date. When I listen to it, I find myself in the driver's seat of a big rig, travelling across the highways of Texas at night. Do you recall the origins of the track?

A: Trucker is about continual social transition - about experiencing critical feelings of disassociation from various political discourses, while identifying that experience in itself as supporting a dominant cultural strategy for complacency. So there is no idle a-political passivity - we are continually mediating ourselves in relation to ideologies and discourses, and the result is perpetual transience. I associate this feeling of being "between destinations" with midwestern highways - I used to go on road trips between Missouri and Minnesota by myself, driving 12 to 14 hours straight, and I remember feeling very at place when technically nowhere. So the Trucker becomes the romanticized political transient, and falling asleep at the wheel is the threat of political idolatry. Her radio picks up remnants of discourse which must be infused with content or discarded. To engage listeners in this process, a repeating voice is muffled just beyond literacy so that they must come up with their own idea of what is being said. The actual phrase being repeated, by the way, is "No heaven," which - aside from being a little anti-spiritual dig in a very meditative track - alludes to the idea that socially there is no final resting place.