I'm writing to myself. But I'm putting it on the internet. Letters that should be hidden away in a drawer or burned. Instead, mailed out. Return to Sender. Enveloping opines. Wrapping them up in impulsively knitted designs of erudite temperament.
Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Wednesday, December 28, 2016
2016
It was alright.
I did not make it through the list. Of course. My choices were abysmal by any decent standards. I am thankful for Scientists, in specific Thank You Scientist. Moderat caught my ear. Krizz Kaliko some other stuff was OK. I learned to hate myself and love again and the other way around. I've been upside down. But here we are. For at least one more sentence. Me now. You in the future. This moment, again. See you next time!
I did not make it through the list. Of course. My choices were abysmal by any decent standards. I am thankful for Scientists, in specific Thank You Scientist. Moderat caught my ear. Krizz Kaliko some other stuff was OK. I learned to hate myself and love again and the other way around. I've been upside down. But here we are. For at least one more sentence. Me now. You in the future. This moment, again. See you next time!
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Album Of The Year
Kriss Kaliko - Go
Feature Track: Bite My Tongue.
Keep Listening: Really, just keep listening.. wow.
Middle Cut: Orangutan
Deep Cut: No Love
Go All The Way: Happyish
My only fear is that is will turn into some kind of R&B mutant. Full of nightmare sex scenes and bump and grind grooves that are ironic on a good day. Track 1 is full of so many new sounds I am about to faint, though. Every track is rated explicit. 16 tracks. If it can hold this momentum... ().()
My issue with music like this is the same as with the poppiest of Pop Country. Some of the best sounding songs have the absolute worst as the only intelligible first-listen lyrics. I am hoping for more Bite My Tounge type tracks. The next track is Didn't Wanna Wake You. Both of these have more "sentimental" vs. "party-time" content. They make for much more powerful experiences. The hooks in the latter are ripped!
There are too many, too fast to really nail down the one that holds it together. But it's a toss up between the subtle yelp and the screaming "Yes, It's something real(?)". The sonic space explored here is really visionary.
Scanning the track list, I see that TechN9ne is featured ontwo three of the tracks, including the next one. And I have no intention of skipping Outta Line. OK. Let's dig in. This going to be tasty.
Behave is a total let down, right off the bat. It drops right into the flow a sick beat that falls off the cliff of another break-up banger. Tech N9ne verse gonna pull it around? Meh. Maybe I just don't get R&B irony? I admit, this is a possibility.
Right into drill piece, More. War music. At 2:10, I am positive that Stevie Stone(?) is spitting over the rhythm and melody of Devil Dent Down to Georgia. That is damn cold.
Dubstep is deconstructed and put back together into a cubist master-piece in No No's.
If you are looking for motivation, focus, or energy. Throw on something from this album. Beware, this is a very intense experience to take in one sitting. But individually, dare say randomly, this is an album that is sure to surprise and impress! Orangutan convinces me that Behave was definitely ironic. Ya'll gond' meet a black person in this song. This record is the end of rap/hiphop. The only reason to go back now is because you don't know about this album. The only thing it is missing is a Prince (RIP) solo.
A couple of skippable tracks. But I haven't heard anything that sounded so new and magnetic for quite awhile. Yes, I know how it looks that two of my featured tracks are the Tech verses. But they really are the best ones on this already breathtaking album. "I never said you would be B-E-A-U-T full".
The amount of bravery, talent and preparedness for the delivery of these verses in No Love. The beats are breaking me. They aren't even beats. There needs to be a new word for what is happening here. The only thing beat here, is everyone else's game.
There is another word that comes to mind under the cathedral arches of Stop the World. Comp. As in Comp-ton. As in assembling visual images together into a composite. As in musicians improvising a supporting mesh of sound so that a soloist or spoken word artist can deliver their message.
Beats are out.
Comps are in.
Comped in.
Compton.
Album of the Year.
No Love is a message from the cosmic sentience that has been mistaken for all manner of deities throughout time. Broadcast to the whole world through the one of the loudest megaphones in the universe, Western, Urban, Pop Music. "Noah" Love, Tech will be swallowed by no whale.
M83 - Junk
Feature Track: Go!
Keep Listening: For The Kids
I am in the middle of listening to M83's Junk for the 3rd time. I always get interrupted and I haven't finished yet. It seems like I am listening to dumb house music, but it's not. Am I going crazy? I think this album is fucking amazing too! The guitar solo on Go! alone! Maybe this one is album of the year. Do I need to wait until the whole year is finished before I can decide for sure? Surely something even better will be released, or already has been. Perhaps we will even see the greatest record of all time emerge this year!
Is one be able to, without any uncertainty, able say what the best album ever created is? And I'm not even speaking objectively here. I mean exactly what I said, subjectively. From your perspective, whatever it may be. Is it actually possible to hold any belief? Even if there is no God. Even if you and your mind are the only force of reason or perspective. Even if you had the agreement and blessing of every real or imaginable form of secondary confirmation. Would it be possible to truly hold any belief? One as simple as "The best album ever made." or "Album of Year".
Even, "The best song I have heard today" is such a fleeting, ephemeral notion.
Moon Crystal is like Krizz & Tech's Behave. When artists have the ability to make any kind of hook sound any way they want, they get a little carried away in the studio sometimes. It's understandable. That power is better used on the immediate following track, For The Kids, featuring Susanne Sundførd. Do you have any idea how hard it is to put that o with a slash through it when you don't type it often? That alone should show how much I want you to listen to this track.
But you also have to listen to Solitude! Deep breaths. The Wizard takes on that Moon Crystal Vibe without being so conscious about it. These little breaks are silly. The only feature I recognize is Beck. I haven't gotten to that track. I am not at the half-way point. Sure to be interrupted again. There are several tracks featuring MAI LAIN. What is the convention behind spotify ALL CAPS or not? Is this an artist or spotify choice? I notice it a lot in "urban" or "rap" titles and across all genres in features. However, that is very inconsistent. I hate the song Laser Gun but it that hook is indestructible. 2017 is going to see the sound of horns and glorious symphonic reconditioning done to shit until the mere mention of a trumpet will send the prospective Listener running AWAY from the headphones. What kind of fucked up crazy world are we living in?®
Don't get me wrong, this record sounds awesome. But you really might not feel good about yourself after you do. They are playing with the "bliss point" of some of the most potent vibration theory available... To Be continued.
Feature Track: Bite My Tongue.
Keep Listening: Really, just keep listening.. wow.
Middle Cut: Orangutan
Deep Cut: No Love
Go All The Way: Happyish
My only fear is that is will turn into some kind of R&B mutant. Full of nightmare sex scenes and bump and grind grooves that are ironic on a good day. Track 1 is full of so many new sounds I am about to faint, though. Every track is rated explicit. 16 tracks. If it can hold this momentum... ().()
My issue with music like this is the same as with the poppiest of Pop Country. Some of the best sounding songs have the absolute worst as the only intelligible first-listen lyrics. I am hoping for more Bite My Tounge type tracks. The next track is Didn't Wanna Wake You. Both of these have more "sentimental" vs. "party-time" content. They make for much more powerful experiences. The hooks in the latter are ripped!
There are too many, too fast to really nail down the one that holds it together. But it's a toss up between the subtle yelp and the screaming "Yes, It's something real(?)". The sonic space explored here is really visionary.
Scanning the track list, I see that TechN9ne is featured on
Behave is a total let down, right off the bat. It drops right into the flow a sick beat that falls off the cliff of another break-up banger. Tech N9ne verse gonna pull it around? Meh. Maybe I just don't get R&B irony? I admit, this is a possibility.
Right into drill piece, More. War music. At 2:10, I am positive that Stevie Stone(?) is spitting over the rhythm and melody of Devil Dent Down to Georgia. That is damn cold.
Dubstep is deconstructed and put back together into a cubist master-piece in No No's.
If you are looking for motivation, focus, or energy. Throw on something from this album. Beware, this is a very intense experience to take in one sitting. But individually, dare say randomly, this is an album that is sure to surprise and impress! Orangutan convinces me that Behave was definitely ironic. Ya'll gond' meet a black person in this song. This record is the end of rap/hiphop. The only reason to go back now is because you don't know about this album. The only thing it is missing is a Prince (RIP) solo.
A couple of skippable tracks. But I haven't heard anything that sounded so new and magnetic for quite awhile. Yes, I know how it looks that two of my featured tracks are the Tech verses. But they really are the best ones on this already breathtaking album. "I never said you would be B-E-A-U-T full".
The amount of bravery, talent and preparedness for the delivery of these verses in No Love. The beats are breaking me. They aren't even beats. There needs to be a new word for what is happening here. The only thing beat here, is everyone else's game.
There is another word that comes to mind under the cathedral arches of Stop the World. Comp. As in Comp-ton. As in assembling visual images together into a composite. As in musicians improvising a supporting mesh of sound so that a soloist or spoken word artist can deliver their message.
Beats are out.
Comps are in.
Comped in.
Compton.
Album of the Year.
No Love is a message from the cosmic sentience that has been mistaken for all manner of deities throughout time. Broadcast to the whole world through the one of the loudest megaphones in the universe, Western, Urban, Pop Music. "Noah" Love, Tech will be swallowed by no whale.
M83 - Junk
Feature Track: Go!
Keep Listening: For The Kids
I am in the middle of listening to M83's Junk for the 3rd time. I always get interrupted and I haven't finished yet. It seems like I am listening to dumb house music, but it's not. Am I going crazy? I think this album is fucking amazing too! The guitar solo on Go! alone! Maybe this one is album of the year. Do I need to wait until the whole year is finished before I can decide for sure? Surely something even better will be released, or already has been. Perhaps we will even see the greatest record of all time emerge this year!
Is one be able to, without any uncertainty, able say what the best album ever created is? And I'm not even speaking objectively here. I mean exactly what I said, subjectively. From your perspective, whatever it may be. Is it actually possible to hold any belief? Even if there is no God. Even if you and your mind are the only force of reason or perspective. Even if you had the agreement and blessing of every real or imaginable form of secondary confirmation. Would it be possible to truly hold any belief? One as simple as "The best album ever made." or "Album of Year".
Even, "The best song I have heard today" is such a fleeting, ephemeral notion.
Moon Crystal is like Krizz & Tech's Behave. When artists have the ability to make any kind of hook sound any way they want, they get a little carried away in the studio sometimes. It's understandable. That power is better used on the immediate following track, For The Kids, featuring Susanne Sundførd. Do you have any idea how hard it is to put that o with a slash through it when you don't type it often? That alone should show how much I want you to listen to this track.
But you also have to listen to Solitude! Deep breaths. The Wizard takes on that Moon Crystal Vibe without being so conscious about it. These little breaks are silly. The only feature I recognize is Beck. I haven't gotten to that track. I am not at the half-way point. Sure to be interrupted again. There are several tracks featuring MAI LAIN. What is the convention behind spotify ALL CAPS or not? Is this an artist or spotify choice? I notice it a lot in "urban" or "rap" titles and across all genres in features. However, that is very inconsistent. I hate the song Laser Gun but it that hook is indestructible. 2017 is going to see the sound of horns and glorious symphonic reconditioning done to shit until the mere mention of a trumpet will send the prospective Listener running AWAY from the headphones. What kind of fucked up crazy world are we living in?®
Don't get me wrong, this record sounds awesome. But you really might not feel good about yourself after you do. They are playing with the "bliss point" of some of the most potent vibration theory available... To Be continued.
Sunday, July 31, 2016
Short Term Memory
Terrace Martin
Velvet Portraits
I was going to say something about this record. I forgot what it was.
It was pretty good, tho.
Velvet Portraits
I was going to say something about this record. I forgot what it was.
It was pretty good, tho.
Someone is Listening to my Phonecalls...
Deftones; Gore
Feature Track: Doomed User
Keep Listening: (L)MIRL
Deep Cut: Gore
I only owned a few band T-shirts back in the day. And one of my favorites was a white baseball syle logo (in blue). If you are any kind of responsible music listener, then you must realize that Deftones possess one of the most unique and infectious sounds in all of rock music. However, in my opinion the last few albums have sounded more like a really good cover band trying to make their own originals.
But Gore comes out of the gate with a fresh new energy that should make even the hippest and most hyped new alternative rock bands tremble with a awe. This is barbaric. It is the classic sound of my youth, imbued with some creative recording techniques to sound like what we remembered feeling like when we first heard this sound.
This looks to be a great experience. The title track, Gore sounds like a social commentary on modern times and hits with a brutality beyond comparison.
I just re-listened to Around The Fur and scanned White Pony to make sure.
The best record they have ever made.
Thank you, guys!
Feature Track: Doomed User
Keep Listening: (L)MIRL
Deep Cut: Gore
I only owned a few band T-shirts back in the day. And one of my favorites was a white baseball syle logo (in blue). If you are any kind of responsible music listener, then you must realize that Deftones possess one of the most unique and infectious sounds in all of rock music. However, in my opinion the last few albums have sounded more like a really good cover band trying to make their own originals.
But Gore comes out of the gate with a fresh new energy that should make even the hippest and most hyped new alternative rock bands tremble with a awe. This is barbaric. It is the classic sound of my youth, imbued with some creative recording techniques to sound like what we remembered feeling like when we first heard this sound.
This looks to be a great experience. The title track, Gore sounds like a social commentary on modern times and hits with a brutality beyond comparison.
I just re-listened to Around The Fur and scanned White Pony to make sure.
The best record they have ever made.
Thank you, guys!
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