Cragmatic Pope was a band of high school aged teenagers from Kirkland Lake, a small northern Ontario mining town that is mostly known for gold mining and being home to an oddly large number of eventual NHL hockey players. (The town has a museum dedicated its contributions to hockey, I shit you not) They were part of a mid-90s DIY alternative/punk scene in northern Ontario Canada.

CRAgmatic Pope, sometimes abbreviated as CRAP, was started in 1994 with a mostly different line-up. The original line-up contained 3 former members of Sister Sticky one of the founding bands of the Imperial Order of Low Budget. The IOLB was a high school club created at the now demolished KLCVI that allowed the local teens, who were students there, to use the school's resources to advance the cause of the town’s independent band scene.

The line-up of Cragmatic Pope represented here, which would be the third and final iteration of the band, recorded and independently released two full length albums only on cassette tape.

"Disappear Today" was recorded in a small 8-track basement studio in New Liskeard in 1995 for about $600.

"Get Away From That Fish" was recorded by Austin on a 4-track in Jasmine's basement in 1996.

The mps3s on this site were ripped from an old cassette tape.

Cragmatic Pope :

Austin Acton: Vocals, Guitar
Shane Willard: Vocals, Guitar
Jasmine Barrette: Bass, Vocals
Amanda Mongeon: Drums, Vocals
Ryan Blais: Cornet, Tacet
Beck Pascoe: Lyrical contributions+original bassist

Austin, Jasmine and Ryan would later form a band called Groundstate which would record an EP titled "Amphetamine" in 1997. Shane would go on to form The Deefons.

	Days to Come Disappear Today - side A track 1 Vocals - AA/SW		skate punk
	Headbends Disappear Today - side A track 2 Nominated for a Golden Kayak in Alternative category (2020) Vocals -AA/JB		alternative garage punk
	Secret Weapon Disappear Today - side A track 3 The first song I wrote for Cragmatic Pope. In 2013 I recorded a lo-fI acoustic version of this song which you can find on my “Shane Willard” IMP page.		PowerPop
	See Disappear Today - side A track 4		skate punk
	Left Disappear Today - side B track 1		skate punk
	Jellybean Disappear Today - side B track 2 Vocals - SW		Indie Pop Rock
	Forgetful Servants of the Abyss Disappear Today - side A track 4 Vocals - AA/JB		Grunge Rock
	Look Disappear Today - side B track 4		Ska Punk
	Immortality From Disappear Today released in a bubble in 1995, released on the web in 2009. Featured on Ronnie Rodent's Best of the Noughties part 3 on Radio Xanadu in the UK. Vocals - SW/JB		Alternative
	Aftershock Side A Track 1 of both Get Away From That Fish and Thrashed Compilation 1996 Vocals - SW/AA		Punk
	I'm Sorry To Say... The full title of this song is I’m Sorry To Say..(that the hippies just gave kids a bad rep) but I can never fit that into any title field. Track 2 Side A of “Get Away From That Fish" released independently in 1996. Re-released on the "Sudbury Where the F@!K is That?" compilation in 1998 that features a slew of other punk and hardcore bands that existed in Sudbury and northern Ontario in the late 1990s. This compilation was recently released online : https://sudburywherethefuckisthat.bandc		Pop Punk
	Grunge Poet Track 3 side A of Get Away From That Fish recorded in 1996 Vocals - AA/SW		Pop Punk
	Faceplant Track 4 side A of Get Away From That Fish recorded in 1996. Re-released on the "Sudbury Where the F@!K is That?" compilation in 1998 that features a slew of other punk and hardcore bands that existed in Sudbury and northern Ontario in the late 1990s. This compilation was recently released online : https://sudburywherethefuckisthat.bandcamp.com/album Vocals - SW		skate punk
	My Disease Track 5 of side A of Get Away From That Fish recorded 1996		Grunge
	Ride The Egyptian Horse (Disarray) Track 1 Side B of Get Away From That Fish side B track 1 also appears on the 1996 Thrashed compilation		skate punk
	Social Oppression Track 3 Side B of Get Away From That Fish. Originally recorded by The Subverts in 1993 on the album Violence and Revolution and again in 1994 on Coup D'Etat. Cragmatic Pope cover version recorded in 1996 for the album Get Away From That Fish. Original Subverts 1993 recording and 1994 re-recording listenable here: https://youtu.be/JfQ57t5z2GQ Licensed Cover		Punk Rock
	Superhero Track 2 Side B of Get Away From That Fish recorded in 1996 Vocals - AA/JB		alternative garage punk
	Mr. Apple Has Gone Away Track 4 Side B of Get Away From That Fish recorded in 1996		PowerPop
	Slow Final track from Get Away From That Fish recorded by Austin with backup vocals from Jasmine and Shauna in 1996		Folk/Acoustic Rock/Americana
	Carpetworld Original 4-track demo of Carpetworld. Last thing recorded by Cragmatic Pope in the summer of 1996. Re-recorded with The Deefons in 1998. Vocals - SW/AA		PowerPop

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