TMBG & Audio Bullys
So the time has come to give my input on music as well as movies. So here we go...
They Might Be Giants - The Spine
RATING: S
SOLID, SILLY, STALE, SKETCH, SERENDIPITOUS, SAVORY
So 'The Spine' is aabout what you'd expect out of a TMBG Album. It has catchy melodies, weird lyrics, the works. "Jodi Foster held 2-pair, Bach had 3-of-a-kind, Gandhi said with my Full House I'll blow you're mind," need I say more? So while that is good, it's lacking anything all that new. It's almost like an outline of something that was planned for bigger and better things, but just didn't quite get off the ground. But in the end it's just a pleasent, acceptable album, just with nothing new that stands out from all their other stuff. (It's not really all that serendipitous, but I just like that word)
Audio Bullys - Ego War
RATING: F
FRISKY, FRONT-HEAVY, FUNKY, FORMULAIC, FUROR...FIZZLE
So the album starts off great, it really got me going. It had some nice beats with good melodies, and it played to my current taste for Eurpean-English. So like the adjectivization might suggest it starts off with a furor, and then fizzles, hardcore. Some of tracks were a little cookie-cutter-ish. It was almost like they just found a beat (often times the same one), took a melody, plugged it into a formula, and then 'rapped' over it. At about track 9 or 10 it just becomes irritating. I guess that was the breaking point for the formula. All in all though it's a respectable album, good even if you just skip the end.