Swans-To Be Kind: Fucking Amazing
The Body/Haxan Cloak-I Shall Die Here: Like two divers struggling to pull each other above the surface of a chilly lake, the collaboration damns the pair to mediocrity by refusing to experiment and, consequently, dragging both projects into a boring album.
The Afghan Whigs-Do To the Beast: Also boring, completely lacking in the spark, charisma, and sex of their old albums.
Friday, August 1, 2014
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Lil B-No Black Person is Ugly: Not just writing this post in case The Guardian checks my blog
I update this thing all the time, really yo.
No one can explain that huge gap from March until now. Anyway...
New Lil B track y'all swag swag swag. My love for hip hop is pretty well (mostly from me telling people how much I like hip hop in a futile way to reduce how much of a stereotype I am) but that love has never really extended to Lil B. Ok, here it goes, I'm going to say it, are you ready because here it comes...
LIL B KIND OF SUCKS. He's just a really mediocre rapper, his flow is stilted and his rhymes are pretty corny. I dig that he's trying to say something positive and profound in a lot of his songs, but he just does it in such a puerile way that it comes off as silly. This new track is no different. Positives first, the production is fucking fly and smooth and I dig it. Unfortunately, Lil B still has trouble rapping on the beat and the chorus played over the beat played over the chorus beat is annoying and sounds muddled. Once again, I like that Lil B is being introspective and saying something that needs to be said. It's true that black people are underrepresented in the media and are forced to live up to white standards of beauty. That fucking sucks, but it also sucks that Lil B has to be the guy to spread that message. Lil B has never been able to provide any sort of subtlety or nuance in his songs before and part of me is unsure if Lil B is being hyperbolic in this song to make a point or if he really believes that there has never been an ugly black person and he decided to make a song expressing his bafflement that anyone anywhere might find a black person unattractive. So yeah, thanks Based God for giving me something else to write about.
No one can explain that huge gap from March until now. Anyway...
New Lil B track y'all swag swag swag. My love for hip hop is pretty well (mostly from me telling people how much I like hip hop in a futile way to reduce how much of a stereotype I am) but that love has never really extended to Lil B. Ok, here it goes, I'm going to say it, are you ready because here it comes...
LIL B KIND OF SUCKS. He's just a really mediocre rapper, his flow is stilted and his rhymes are pretty corny. I dig that he's trying to say something positive and profound in a lot of his songs, but he just does it in such a puerile way that it comes off as silly. This new track is no different. Positives first, the production is fucking fly and smooth and I dig it. Unfortunately, Lil B still has trouble rapping on the beat and the chorus played over the beat played over the chorus beat is annoying and sounds muddled. Once again, I like that Lil B is being introspective and saying something that needs to be said. It's true that black people are underrepresented in the media and are forced to live up to white standards of beauty. That fucking sucks, but it also sucks that Lil B has to be the guy to spread that message. Lil B has never been able to provide any sort of subtlety or nuance in his songs before and part of me is unsure if Lil B is being hyperbolic in this song to make a point or if he really believes that there has never been an ugly black person and he decided to make a song expressing his bafflement that anyone anywhere might find a black person unattractive. So yeah, thanks Based God for giving me something else to write about.
Friday, March 28, 2014
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Perfect Pussy-Say Yes to Love
For fans of: Ponytail, Fucked Up, unattractive hipsters talking about Sonic Youth
Rating: While they're certainly not reinventing hardcore or noise rock, this melodic take on noisy lo-fi punk is enjoyable from start to finish. The album already has a fair deal of hype surrounding it which I feel it could never live up to, still this album contains a unique charm of its own.
Rating: While they're certainly not reinventing hardcore or noise rock, this melodic take on noisy lo-fi punk is enjoyable from start to finish. The album already has a fair deal of hype surrounding it which I feel it could never live up to, still this album contains a unique charm of its own.
Saturday, February 22, 2014
The Body-Hail to Thee, Everlasting Pain: The Sound of 1000 Frustrated Orgasms of Basement Metal Nerds
The Corpus of heavy metal
This track is essentially a dream come true. The Body, a sludge band that has been steadily increasing their profile among metal heads and music journalists by being dark as fuck, and The Haxan Cloak, darkness personified, are doing a collaborative album. This will be an extraordinary album if every track is as chaotic as this one. Who knew these two projects would get on so brilliantly? The video is essentially an afterthought, minimalist moving images which is welcome in the contrast to The Afghan Whigs's last video attempt.
This track is essentially a dream come true. The Body, a sludge band that has been steadily increasing their profile among metal heads and music journalists by being dark as fuck, and The Haxan Cloak, darkness personified, are doing a collaborative album. This will be an extraordinary album if every track is as chaotic as this one. Who knew these two projects would get on so brilliantly? The video is essentially an afterthought, minimalist moving images which is welcome in the contrast to The Afghan Whigs's last video attempt.
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
The Afghan Whigs-Algeria: A Few Fucks More
Anything to put The Afghan Whigs in the pop culture spotlight again is a good thing
So The Afghan Whigs are now old, which means they are obligated to like Westerns. But that's ok, because Marty Robbins is the shit and combining a western sound and aesthetic with Greg Dulli's voice is hip as fuck. Unfortunately the music video is sort of hilariously bad since the climax is a guitar solo which you can't even hear because of all the men whipping old Greg Dulli. Thus, the ending of the video where Greg Dulli hunts down and kills his tormentors is only the second most insane moment of the video. On balance though, this +10000000000 because the Afghan Whigs are back
So The Afghan Whigs are now old, which means they are obligated to like Westerns. But that's ok, because Marty Robbins is the shit and combining a western sound and aesthetic with Greg Dulli's voice is hip as fuck. Unfortunately the music video is sort of hilariously bad since the climax is a guitar solo which you can't even hear because of all the men whipping old Greg Dulli. Thus, the ending of the video where Greg Dulli hunts down and kills his tormentors is only the second most insane moment of the video. On balance though, this +10000000000 because the Afghan Whigs are back
St. Vincent-St. Vincent
For fans of: St. Vincent, knowing an indie band that you're parents won't loath
Rating: St. Vincent once again makes a well constructed pop album, lyrically and stylistically diverse the album is fun to listen to throughout but really lacks any staying power. It's certainly a good album, but it wasn't as revelatory as the early reviews would lead one to believe.
Rating: St. Vincent once again makes a well constructed pop album, lyrically and stylistically diverse the album is fun to listen to throughout but really lacks any staying power. It's certainly a good album, but it wasn't as revelatory as the early reviews would lead one to believe.
Friday, February 14, 2014
Behemoth-The Satanist
For Fans of: Black metal, detailing the differences between LaVeyan Satanism and Theological Satanism, people who kicked cancer's ass #fuckcancer
Rating: It's certainly not going to be the black metal crossover hit that Sunbather was, but it's a fucking amazing black metal album. If you enjoy black metal, or really any extreme music, this album is a must buy.
Rating: It's certainly not going to be the black metal crossover hit that Sunbather was, but it's a fucking amazing black metal album. If you enjoy black metal, or really any extreme music, this album is a must buy.
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Have a Nice Life-The Unnatural World
For Fans of: GY!BE and Post-hardcore, thinking that lo-fi necessarily makes an album more emotional, liking black metal enough to understand its importance but not enough to listen to it, having Goth dance parties by yourself
Rating: Buy this album, it's only 5$ on their bandcamp
Rating: Buy this album, it's only 5$ on their bandcamp
Monday, February 10, 2014
Sunn 0))) and Ulver-Terrestirals
For fans of: Sunn 0))), modern Ulver, a fitful sleep interspersed with nightmares, continuing to act like you understand Sunn 0)) to impress the hipsters, Satan
Rating: Pretty good, if you're into that sort of thing.
Rating: Pretty good, if you're into that sort of thing.
Friday, February 7, 2014
Mark Stewart-Learning to Cope with Cowardice
For fans of: Explaining who Lee Perry is, explaining who The Pop Group is (coming soon to a shitty blog near you!), ruining parties for the plebs who don't understand your music.
Monday, January 6, 2014
This Heat-Deceit
For Fans of: that feeling inside of you when you know that you've done something wrong and you're waiting for the other shoe to drop, waking up and not being able to move your body as you freak out about the existential implications of willing oneself to move without any response, the anxiety induced by that fact that at any moment the world could be destroyed by nuclear arms, your right hand cutting off your left hand if it should dishonor you.
Saturday, January 4, 2014
Silent Scream-Public Execution
For fans of: Being a post-punk/80's throwback, being unemployed, writing an under appreciated music blog that you should really update more often, early Swans
This is by far one of the best albums I have heard all year. This hardly known Finnish post-punk act destroyed all competition in my mind by releasing an album that revived a genre that many thought was long dead (I mean, whatever, Savages did that as well I guess). Silent Scream channels the dark era of post-punk in stark contrast to the modern post-punk acts like The Arctic Monkeys or Interpol(great bands certainly, but I think there is a lot of unexplored territory within the so called "post-punk revival" movement). Serving as a medium for such diverse acts as Siouxsie and the Banshees, Swans, and PIL this band is able to deliver an album that resurrects both the alienating and the dance-pop aspects of post-punk. Essentially, they made an album in 2012 that catered exactly to my tastes that I just found out about so I'm going to rave. Please go support this band, keep Goth alive so I can keep finding material for my blog (Also, Rotten Days is so simultaneously punk-funk and heavy industrial Swans that Silent Scream deserve all your money anyway)
This is by far one of the best albums I have heard all year. This hardly known Finnish post-punk act destroyed all competition in my mind by releasing an album that revived a genre that many thought was long dead (I mean, whatever, Savages did that as well I guess). Silent Scream channels the dark era of post-punk in stark contrast to the modern post-punk acts like The Arctic Monkeys or Interpol(great bands certainly, but I think there is a lot of unexplored territory within the so called "post-punk revival" movement). Serving as a medium for such diverse acts as Siouxsie and the Banshees, Swans, and PIL this band is able to deliver an album that resurrects both the alienating and the dance-pop aspects of post-punk. Essentially, they made an album in 2012 that catered exactly to my tastes that I just found out about so I'm going to rave. Please go support this band, keep Goth alive so I can keep finding material for my blog (Also, Rotten Days is so simultaneously punk-funk and heavy industrial Swans that Silent Scream deserve all your money anyway)
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