- Electronic
pop
- Comedy
- Urban music
- Hip-hop
- Rap
- Indie pop
Comment:
it happened quite recently when I discovered such a label as
Imaginary Albums which in fact had been in action in the first half
of the 00s. The roster of the imprint involves such artists as Corpus
Callosum, The History and
Civilization of the Great Black Swamp, Laura
Palmer, Hubre, Procrustes, Blasting Trout Overbite, Cookie Jar, Santa
Inferno, The Harvey Girls, Swain, Tiny Creatures (the artist also
being known from the roster of the Israeli imprint Birdsong. Thanks
to it I discovered Imaginary Albums), and C.J Pizarro.
The two first tracks (
Dark
Black Semen,
Going
To Die) apparently
mock the violent gangsta
rap philosophy and culture gravitating
towards sex, guns, and dope. Of course, the rest of the tracks (or
at least the most of them) have been managed to
focus on these themes but they abandon the apparent stereotypical
approach though carrying on
a tongue-in-cheek
advance and
involving black humour (for
instance, at
Look! I'm an
Angel!). Frequently comedy aspects are intermingled with experimental pop elements. For instance, at
Alpacas R Us the artist exploits repulsively desperate vowel effects and chants and a battle of sonic effects being counterpointed by sublime a cappella and soulful singing here and there, However, there are up some
tracks which used to
distance from rap/hip-hop music. For instance, the final track
Heaven
and Milk running in the
vein of artsy indie pop by
employing sliding sonic
effects and twanging guitars and exuberant singing.
