ARV & MILJÖ "Orientering I Denna Värld" CDListened this few times already. Yesterday suffering from severe hangover, and laying down, listening the rough, noisy, rotten, yet structured A&M CD two times in row was very good. Had previous listening too, so knew what to expect. Album length is less than 30 mins, isn't it? 7 pieces of noise, where each track has it's own structure & sounds. Very much to my liking!
Sample track here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSh9MJKT2-UContrastate "A Breeding Ground For Flies" CD2012 album that has been in my shelves waiting for good moment to be listened. I'm big fan of old Contrastate and keep being amazed about lack of attention they appear to get? But I bet if someone mistakes to grab this album to start with, it may not help situation. Not that this would be horrible, but there is so clear difference between old analogue, perfectly flowing Contrastate, and the new computer edited one. There's about 10 years break between this and previous release. Style still is kind of same, but just... not the same. While I tolerate well all sorts of obvious, blunt and even childish political content in music, and sometimes even praise and advocate such, I draw lines somewhere. All sorts of neo-fascists, all sorts of anarchists, even deranged & mad feminists would have their place... but when you combine underground music with most extreme banalities of anti-Bush USA propaganda, that's where I generally draw the line where very few manage to walk out without being failures. Not that there isn't substance to be critical of American politics and George Bush junior in particular, but while the rest mentioned often carry sort of inbuild artistic element, the Bush criticism seems something completely different.
Album works nearly as it would be soundtrack music for anti-Bush documentary. It's too mechanical and too soulless, too modern and dry to have same artistic level as past works. It's too obvious, without saying that much. I'd prefer politics without this kind of logical reasoning! Everything in this album appears like it follows almost mathematical accuracy and reason.
At the same time, best moments of album works fine in its genre. At worst it is with horrid flirt with... what you call it these days? Dubstep? I don't know. Some sort of experimental dance in the end of disc.
Sample here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XohKiEhP1Ss
