I kept hearing great things about this album. "Lo-fi surf rock," they said. I like lo-fi surf rock. Not many people do that kind of music anymore. I was excited.
My excitement was completely unfounded. They got the lo-fi part right, but there's not much that resembles surf rock on here. There may be a couple songs on this album that fit that bill, but the majority of it is filled with noise that borders on torture.
Let's get this out of the way: I like noise. I enjoy Sonic Youth's SYR albums, which are, for the most part, orchestrated noise. I also enjoy Jon Spencer Blues Explosion's Now I Got Worry, which is about as lo-fi and noisy as music can be and still be listenable. I could go on, but I won't.
So it's not because of some old-person sensibility that leads me to say this: the majority of this album is nothing but noise. It's not good noise. It's terrible noise. This noise is at a frequency that can be literally painful to listen to...and that's at low volume.
There are a couple of tracks on here that were pretty good, but I don't remember what they are, and, frankly, they weren't even worth skipping through the album trying to find them again. Not a good sign.
Rating: .5/5
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2 comments:
Wow. Wwwow. Keep this review around for posterity's sake. I've never seen such low numbers from you.
I know. The majority of stuff I put up here is because I really like it, and I want other people to like it, too.
I realized, though, that I listen to a lot of stuff, and not all of it is good. The bad stuff just fades from my memory quicker. I listen to it a couple of times. I hate it. I move on. I think I'm going to try to start writing short reviews like this a little more frequently. Good or bad, I'll try to get something up on it.
Now, let's see if that happens...
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