TRANTIFAE TERROIR CELLARS
the 2025 LP by Los Angeles Industrial Punk band Precious Child.
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ABOUT TRANTIFAE TERROIR CELLARS
TRANTIFAE TERROIR CELLARS album art
Released March 28th 2025, “TRANTIFAE TERROIR CELLARS” is Los Angeles artist PRECIOUS CHILD’s self produced, art-first Industrial Punk album featuring degendered vocals, analog synth-bass, and drop tuned guitar. The album is Precious Child’s response to years of political persecution at the hands of the USA’s far right.
Most recently, Precious Child was targeted by transphobic South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace, who personally decided Precious Child’s music “violated YouTube’s terms and conditions” and directed YouTube to remove several of her music videos from the platform.
TRANTIFAE TERROIR CELLARS embraces the monstrous characterization thrust upon Precious Child by Mace, who is only the latest in a long line of political critics, delivering a delirious vision of carnage.
TRACKLIST
1 TRANTIFAE TERROIR CELLARS
2 OSHENZ OF BLd66
3 i pronouns u DED
4 sexhunredsissysiex pookies
5 VIOLENCE CHOSE YOU FIRST YOU FUCD UP IT WAS TIME TO KILL ALL ALONG AND NOW ITS TOO LATE
6 THE DREAM IS OF MONEY
7 MONEY IS DEATH
8 KILL ALL THE PRIESTS
9 1234 KILL
10 fuc mi like youve fucked yourself
11 Maceface
12 TO ZERO YEARS OF H8
13 THE END OF THE FUCKING NIGHT
Credits:
Production, Instrumentation, Vocals, Songs - Precious Child
Cover image, album images: Jean Denegar
ICONOGRAPHY
TRANTIFAE TERROIR CELLARS iconography
The image of the pink triangle with the three downward arrows is a visual portmanteau; it combines two distinct symbols to create a new symbol.
port·man·teau /pôrtˈmantō/ a word blending the sounds and combining the meanings of two others, for example motel (from ‘motor’ and ‘hotel’) or brunch (from ‘breakfast’ and ‘lunch’)
The pink triangle was used by Nazi Germany as a cloth badge on concentration camp prisoners to identify trans women and gay men. Notably, after the allies liberated camp survivors, pink-badged individuals were re-imprisoned due to German anti homosexuality laws. In the 80s, the symbol was inverted as a sign of gay pride and reclaimed.
In this instance, the symbol is reverted to its original orientation as both an acknowledgement of the queer genocide of the past and as an alert to the the slow-moving queer genocide of the present day USA.
The three arrows symbol was conceived to represent the resistance against Nazisim and Fascism. It is still used today with the same intent.
Combined the pink triangle stands in front of the three arrows. Queer, trans people are at the forefront of the struggle against American Nazisim, American Fascism. With the local and national repeal of trans rights, and the building menace of carceral punishment or exile, queers are are the canaries in the coal mine. Queers, particularly BIPOC queers are the vanguard of resistance for they have the most to lose and the most to gain.
WORDS
TRANTIFAE is another portmanteau. It combines the words “transgender, “antifa”, and “faerie”.
A transgender individual is a person who identifies with a different gender than the sex assigned at their birth.
Antifa is a contraction of “antifascist”- a person who resists, rejects, disavows fascism. Antifa refers to the far left wing politicial ideology of anti-racism, anti-fascism, anti-authoritarianism, anti-capitalism, anarchism, socialism, communism.
Faerie refers to the magical inhabitants of “The Fae” or the other worlds. The concept of The Fae and faeries exists across myths, story, and spiritual practice of many indigenous people. “Faerie” also is a disparaging term for a queer person, often reclaimed and jovially utilized in the queer community.
TERROIR describes the environmental factors that influence an organism’s genetic expression and resulting characteristics. The relevant example for this album (per the cover art) is the terroir of wines. Farming practices, terrain, soil, microclimate all dictate the inherent characteristics of a wine.
CELLARS is a subterranean (traditionally) storage room for foods or in the context of the album art, wine. Wine is placed in cellars for the compounds to develop and age.
All Together Now - at face value
Taken all together, “TRANTIFAE TERROIR CELLARS” evokes a fictional wine brand, one perhaps run by or inspired by Transgender Antifascists.
ALL TOGETHER NOW- WITH CONTEXT
The album art depicts the artist Precious Child holding a prop molotov cocktail which utilizes a TRANTIFAE TERROIR CELLARS wine bottle. They appear to be caught mid-contemplation, examining the lit contraption, perhaps about to throw it over the fence at the building in the background.
Noting this context, one might realize that “Terroir” rhymes with “Terror” and “Cellars” rhymes with cells.
This presents an alternate contextual interpretation- that the album title could also mean “TRANTIFAE TERROR CELLS”.
The artist states:
"All information considered, perhaps the album title refers to the social contexts wherein Trans Antifascist Cells of resistance might develop, mature, and eventually, take action.
The people of the USA are civil. They express profound discontent via law abiding, peaceable, pleading actions. What if we lived in a fantasy of the heart, where our outrage was instead manifested in outlandish, perhaps even fiery action?"
INSPIRATION
ORIGINS OF PORTMANTEAU ICON
The portmanteau of the triangle and three spears was seemingly designed by the instagram account Pride Was a Riot, Sacramento. They self describe as a “Queer-identity based antifascist affinity group focused on art, outreach and education”.
The icon first appeared on the streets of Sacramento after a spree of hate crimes against queers. It attested to localized community self defense suggesting a "we're not gonna take it anymore" stance.
Precious Child became aware of their iconography and activism via the Wi Spa Controversy wherein Precious Child was the victim of a viral moral panic hoax. This icon was visible on multiple social media posts, banners, and memes related to the controversy.
ORIGINS OF PHRASE
The phrase Trantifa Terror Cell was coined in January 2025 by an anonymous white supremacist heterosexual propagandist. It suggests that there are trans terrorist groups around the USA that plan and inflict acts of terrorism in adherence to their ideology.
This is a fantasy. The most recent FBI Strategic Intelligence Assessment and Data on Domestic Terrorism report states that the number one threat to the safety and security of the people of the USA is that of fascistic white nationalists AKA Nazis.
Precious Child appreciated the fantasy evoked and decided to claim it for the purpose of her art.
Precious Child 2025
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