- Post-industrial
- Crossover
- Noise
- Singer-songwriter
- Art pop
- Modern classical
- Avant-garde
- Experimentalism
Comment: I guess it might even be better to have no
words about this miscellany of 15 tracks altogether. It would just be better to
silently absorb all those innumerable vagaries into your restless soul thereby
getting moving resonance toward the outside world which is thoroughly depraved
and rotten because the human being as a species has either no inner will or
bigger plan for to leap to a next, qualitatively higher level. The world is
governed by the masters of none and in our (Western) media and societies inferior
topics used to predominate over essential ones (climate changes, arising problems
with heavily polluted environment, fossil fuel based stagnation). Kevin
McFadden aka The Hathaway Plot`s purpose is to hint at these problems in a more
and less direct way. More profoundly, he has stated against late-industrial
capitalism, consumer culture, and music-as-commodity. Another facet is his
music which talks in an indirect way through stark threads within THFP and even
in his standalone tracks could be many universes to be discerned. Spare Time is as crackbrained as hell. If
it is produced with rage then this rage must have been repressed and
subsequently channelized into these movable pieces. The whole embarks on like a
revelation impending doom through stepwise accelerated drone threads within the
ambient dominated environment. Later on, McFadden starts off to pose as singer-songwriter
though doing it in a very unusual way. Those calm compositional explorations are
starkly “disturbed” by nervous twitches and painful pinches which in turn are even
more amplified by sheer noise blankets. At times it may remind of some of the
The Swans`s desolate compositions though the link between these artists is
fortunately quite faint. On the other side, one could draw some parallels to
another excellent issue coming out of 2015, Mart Avi`s Humanista which is also an uncompromisingly straightforward one of
exploiting unabashedly avant-garde elements in a pop structure. Ideologically
both artists tempt to de(con)struct pop volumes as reflections of the real-life
deviated surrounding. It is crucial McFadden is able to sustain the aforementioned
aesthetical and emotional peak throughout the course. I have listened to it for
three times in a row at least while upholding excitement and feeling no boredom
at all. It is one of the most pre-eminent issues in 2015 for sure. Given that THFP`s
previous issues are great as well so it could be foretold that new issues are
going to reach new sceptical adherents to its own list.