- Avant-garde
- No Wave
- Art pop
- Noise
- Experimentalism
- Experimental pop
- Freeformfreakout
- Post-industrial
- Drone pop
- Improvised music
- Avant-pop
Comment: it is not surprise at
all I have been fascinated with the aesthetics of The Hathaway Family
Plot for a while because every step by a Buffalo, US-based artist
called Kevin McFadden is worth to be parsed and thought off. It is
interesting and intriguing. In comparison to his previous albums he
used to incorporate new elements and axial aspects to the mix and
making it in the way to change the paradigm being set out by him
previously. The current 14-notch issue is overwhelmed by stomping
noises, designed deranged noise sculptures (
Dymaxion; Not
Gonna Leave), gentle yet uncanny improvisations of having neither
time nor space and some mutilated vocal lines and if to compare it to
the artist previous issue
Having No Alternative it is more
inclined to be a successor of No Wave music and the aesthetic of
beatniks. Its purpose is to to be set free from oppressive
conventions and annoying traditions being an effect of a society of
having no future and certain plan to transcend recent economic and
survival understanding. At least it seems so while Kevin McFadden
likes to manipulate with it and finally destroy it by deconstructing
it into something new and challenging. Indeed, one part of the whole
it is made up of thought-provoking sounds but the rest of it reveals
a huge emotional impact on one's weary sensations and resigned soul.
It can be concluded it is ultimately a positive plan to be set out
for the sake of all of us. Indeed, by listening to the whole I can
imagine it as if a sonic counterpoint of a beatnik text being
converted into. But it does not mean the artist dislikes silent
moments. For instance,
Elegy for Thomas Kincaid The Younger
(1661-1726) is a sublime number
of a droning organ and a dense harmonica (?). However,
The Locks reminds of the art of Robert Wyatt. In general,
Mechanics
In The Age Of Artistic
Reproduction is a fine
outing which is a chapter along the path paved by Kevin McFadden.
Alarms are up there
everywhere but we need more and more surprises to cope with them. Digital simulacra and the simulacra of real life are just nugatory objects to deceive himself/herself thoroughly. It is not the solution at all.
