What my peers think of the Fourth Estate…

Posted on May 11th, 2009

Filed under: General,Music News — Karl Olson @ 12:37 am

Fellow Nerdcore compatriots Antisoc and Dr. MC Mystery have also done reviews. Both are positive on the record. As such, I’m 4 for 4 on that tip. Maybe I should send a copy to Pitchfork. A 0.0 would be delicious, and even with a horrid score, it’d probably be the first review of a Nerdcore album.

The interesting thing is the lack of song-to-song consensus on the record. It’s definitely struck people in very different ways on that basis, which is probably a sign I actually I succeeded in delivering on diversity, even though I did select towards more clubby beats for the most part. The flipside is that I didn’t expect the album to be so impenetrable lyrically. I thought I’d backed the references off relative to the previous albums (not intentionally either – I just noticed I wasn’t saying “[x] like [insert anime here]” as much when I was writing songs, and the raw number of references had subsided,) or that at the very least, they were coached in broader themes, thus at least still communicating the intended emotion. In fact, there were some songs that were much thicker with references that I omitted. Knowing the album’s dense to people who aren’t me is useful to know. It gives me a much better perspective on why I get the level of response I do my music – my lyrics really do result in an intensely limited audience, lauded production aside.

PS: The new Star Trek movie is fantastic; it delivers on action and on sci-fi. Hopefully, they keep it in Abrams’ hands for atleast another film or two. An alternate-universe Trek was long over due, and well, this was just about the best possible way of pulling it off.

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