- Lo-fi
- Psych-rock
- Avant-rock
- Dada music
- DIY
- Free jazz
- Experimental rock
- Freeformfreakout
- Noise pop
- Acid rock
Comment: this
bunch of 22 tracks provides a good overview about the intention and
music of such a cutting-edge imprint as cassette-only Bob Chaos (based on Muncie, Indiana, USA) due to a music
label from the Netherlands, WM Recordings. Actually it was released
in 2004, at the time home recording activities and the New Weird
movement started appear in a dizzy way. Actually by such artists as
Latent Chaos, Modern Exteriors, The Suadetones, Atomic Butterfly,
MCRB, Disposable Air Sickness Band, Sonic Clams, Band-O-Fun, and Soul
Celtics the listener can find out many those characteristics which
started appear two decades later. Knee-deep psychedelia, at times
being deliberately buffoonish and provoking by subverting the
so-called established pop narratives. For instance, there is up a
slippery version of
Goldfinger by The Suadestones, there is
also a song being obviously aroused by the Broadway aesthetics as a
main sign of Western Capitalism and decadence. At times there are up
themes being obsessive in their absurdity and madness being imbued with faint odours coming from the glistening aesthetic of Joe Meek, kitchen sink, space age music, radiophonic art, exploitation genres, and free jazz. I have always
adored such sort of bands who dared to provide absurdity as a
refreshing colour to the embodiment of music. And the most important
thing is that we all are the apes in spite of bearing clothes and by
using smart talk. By the way, our closer relatives used to do it as
well. In a word, it is fun to partake in that decorous, spiky madness. Would you cut off your dick for art?
