I think I retained like maybe half the original albums on this chart? Whatever.
Hair Police - Mercurial Rites (2013)
>noise, industrial
It starts of pretty cool, I like the textures on the first track and ocassionally the textures on later tracks sound pretty cool, but this is just bland, flat noise that sounds like the shit I'd hear in a basement show by an angsty teenager addicted to Whitehouse (projecting, ladies and gentlemen). It's just not an interesting album, and any time something new happens, like the screaming, it's just executed very poorly.
0.5+
Kim Fowley - Outrageous (1968)
>psychedelic rock, spoken word
Yeah, that titles correct, I've always known Fowley as being one of the most outrageous figures in pop music. I knew that he was a good songwriter and producer (he produced The Quick's Mondo Deco, he wrote "Nude Beach a Go-Go on Ariel Pink's Pom Pom, which is a really infectious track, and he contributed to Zappa's Freak Out), but I never knew he actually released album's of his own, and I mean, he's alright on his own. Definitely sounds a lot like a lost Zappa album, with Fowley ranting and raving over some decent garagey psych instrumentation. The vocals and the spoken word is the highlight here, the backing band is just playing some very tepid, but fitting, psych. A spotty but pretty good album.
2.5
Black to Comm - Alphabet 1968 (2009)
>ambient, drone
Modern day ambient/drone is oversaturated as all hell, but this is done pretty damn well. Sometimes it gets very airy and phonily "epic", kinda like its a part of a film score but without the very crucial film, but when it gets more active and weird I like it a lot. "Musik Für Alle" is a wonderful track, as is "Void", which sounds like a creepy spaceship taking off into the void, fittingly enough. The rest is pleasant enough, but I could do without it.
2.5-
one more! and i may have some pretty shocking opinions about it!
