imported_I, fuzzbot.
Dec 16th, 2004, 11:21 PM
Beans - 'Tomorrow Right Now'
Wordy ex-Antipop dude lays some some phat rhymes over a combination of chunky futuristic beats, Warp-y 'tronica clicking, sparse human beatbox and girls going 'Phreek The Beet!'
Clue To Kalo - 'Come Here When You Sleepwalk'
Cute electronica in the vein of theboylucas, but only better. Listening to Clue To Kalo isn't EXACTLY like being hugged by puppies while lying on a cotton-wool bed drinking juice, but it's a little bit like it, and that's cool. Get it if you like Boards Of Canada or Clue To Kalo. ESPECIALLY if you like Clue To Kalo. And download 'This Is Over By Inches'.
Cat Power - 'You Are Free'
My favourite Cat Power song is Chan Marshall's cover of 'Come On In My Kitchen' by 30's Delta bluesman Robert Johnson (get that!), but this is nice, too. It's not much different to what you'd expect from Cat Power, but that's kinda comforting in its own way.
Zwan - 'Mary Star Of The Sea
You know you're gonna buy this anyway, you gimp, it's got Billy Corgan on it. And despite the pompous title, it's not some conceptual crap, it's an album of big sunny rock songs with crap lyrics about love. But look! David Pajo! Paz! Guitars! Nice! Buy!
NMS - 'Woe To Thee O Land Whose King Is A Child'
Remember hearing that Charlotte Church had recorded a song called 'Brave New World' with some DJ called Jurgen? Did you think, 'Cool! She's rebelling against her choirgirl roots by recording an incendiary treatise about the state of the world and the erosion of democratic principles which have been instigated by the US' corporate hegemony, bringing us dangerously close to the homogenised, bland stew of mind-numbing herd mentality and government-mandated entertainment envisioned by Aldous Huxley in the book of the same name'? Were you slightly disappointed when it turned out to be a crap piece of pointless 'euphoric trance' bollocks about 'journeying through your mind' destined to end up on compilations like 'The Best Euphoric And Non-Specifically 'European' Trance Released In The Second Two Weeks Of January 2003...Ever!'?
As a tribute to the book, it pretty much sucked balls. NMS know your pain. NMS are Big Justoleum (ex-Company Flow) and, well, some other guy. They're mighty pissed off at George W Bush and all his mates. They dish him a lot of bile here, and it's really quite exciting. Notable song titles include 'Super Pretzel (Diplo Damage)'. At some points the proselytising gets a little much and a little obvious, but rap can get away with taking subjects head-on in a way which rock music really can't. And that's why we need shit like this now. Plus, the beats be phat, bro!
Wordy ex-Antipop dude lays some some phat rhymes over a combination of chunky futuristic beats, Warp-y 'tronica clicking, sparse human beatbox and girls going 'Phreek The Beet!'
Clue To Kalo - 'Come Here When You Sleepwalk'
Cute electronica in the vein of theboylucas, but only better. Listening to Clue To Kalo isn't EXACTLY like being hugged by puppies while lying on a cotton-wool bed drinking juice, but it's a little bit like it, and that's cool. Get it if you like Boards Of Canada or Clue To Kalo. ESPECIALLY if you like Clue To Kalo. And download 'This Is Over By Inches'.
Cat Power - 'You Are Free'
My favourite Cat Power song is Chan Marshall's cover of 'Come On In My Kitchen' by 30's Delta bluesman Robert Johnson (get that!), but this is nice, too. It's not much different to what you'd expect from Cat Power, but that's kinda comforting in its own way.
Zwan - 'Mary Star Of The Sea
You know you're gonna buy this anyway, you gimp, it's got Billy Corgan on it. And despite the pompous title, it's not some conceptual crap, it's an album of big sunny rock songs with crap lyrics about love. But look! David Pajo! Paz! Guitars! Nice! Buy!
NMS - 'Woe To Thee O Land Whose King Is A Child'
Remember hearing that Charlotte Church had recorded a song called 'Brave New World' with some DJ called Jurgen? Did you think, 'Cool! She's rebelling against her choirgirl roots by recording an incendiary treatise about the state of the world and the erosion of democratic principles which have been instigated by the US' corporate hegemony, bringing us dangerously close to the homogenised, bland stew of mind-numbing herd mentality and government-mandated entertainment envisioned by Aldous Huxley in the book of the same name'? Were you slightly disappointed when it turned out to be a crap piece of pointless 'euphoric trance' bollocks about 'journeying through your mind' destined to end up on compilations like 'The Best Euphoric And Non-Specifically 'European' Trance Released In The Second Two Weeks Of January 2003...Ever!'?
As a tribute to the book, it pretty much sucked balls. NMS know your pain. NMS are Big Justoleum (ex-Company Flow) and, well, some other guy. They're mighty pissed off at George W Bush and all his mates. They dish him a lot of bile here, and it's really quite exciting. Notable song titles include 'Super Pretzel (Diplo Damage)'. At some points the proselytising gets a little much and a little obvious, but rap can get away with taking subjects head-on in a way which rock music really can't. And that's why we need shit like this now. Plus, the beats be phat, bro!