8.0
/Primitive pop, Non-music, Dada music, Conceptual, Avant-garde, Experimentalism/
Comment: this is the debut album by Richard There, Cologne-based artist whose musical ambition tends to outrun the borders of usual understanding of pop music. It is infiltrated with peculiar dodges and whimsical forays coming out of the middle of...an undeciphered centre. It is filled in with provoking, primitivistic vocal tricks, austere dadaism, zaly repetitions, vague hints at the tradition of pop culture (Kraftwerk). More concretely, it is made up of using vocal-based yet intimate, schizoid freakishness as if the music were translated into the format of some sort of (sonic) comics (RT is also being known due to the writing of it). Is it a kind of singer-songwriter-ism? However, it is weird shit indeed.