Tuesday, May 30, 2017
David Sylvian - Secret of the Beehive
Damn it all, I tried to love this. It's fine mood music but rarely rises above artistic posturing.
Time to revive this monster
Pull yourself out of the tomb, Lazarus. Wipe that ash from your knees and get back to work. There's music to review.
Friday, August 1, 2014
Updates on the singles
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.
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.
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.
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