Ok, I got through my second listen.
I have to say it disappointed after a quite encouraging start.
Where to start.
There is definitely promise there, but it never gets beyond sounding like a demo tape with a jumble of ideas thrown in, not an actual album of any cohesion.
I liked song 2, the iluminati one, but I rapidly grew irritated with the guys voice after that. I wasn’t sure why as I was kind of thinking with better production, his voice could be brought to the fore like Beck and made far more interesting on several tracks.
I found it very samey for most of the ‘album?’, but there were highlights, although too few and far between. I think it was around song 7 & 8 or so, that I got some sort of interest back.
There was one featuring some dj 3rd Rail or some such, that I thought could have something, but it struck me what I really don’t like about this amateurish production. It’s the singers doubletracking of his voice. It’s very irritating listening to it on every song like that. It makes it very unclear.
Then I suppose you have to address the subject matter. The little I could make out, didn’t real hold any interest for me. I don really want to be preached to and to be honest, I think this rap style comes across as totally put on and not suited to the genre at all. That may well be my own bias, but I just didn’t get it at all.
All of that sounds very negative and tbh again, I’m struggling this week, to find the time on my own to listen to this. I’ve gone from being quite enthusiastically looking forward to my second listen, to really wondering if a third listen is on the cards at all.
My current thinking is a 4 for effort and individuality which is very much let down by production and what seems to be a lack of a coherent idea of where it wants to go. It’s a demo tape.
I’ll give it an extra mark however again for bravery of choice from Mr.B.
I’ll try my best to get a third listen in.
