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Der Kizer's Museum of Music

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Der Kizer
8 years ago
In which I blog like a faggot.


The music subforum here is pretty much a graveyard anyways, so I do not feel like this is really going to reduce the quality in any real way. I spend about four hours a day listening to music at work and like giving my opinion on it, but most people I know in real life think my taste in music is shit and I am sure that most people on the Internet will think the same thing, but whatever. Here is a topic for me to post my musings on stuff that I am listening to and to review things that I think are good and bad. I know we already have the Fantano and real music blogs and /mu/ and stuff, but this is going to be my own quiet corner where I can type on and on and largely be ignored and give largely irrelevant opinions on things that I think are cool. So if you want to read along, feel free.

So let's get the ball rolling with a couple album recommendations for things that captivated me so much I actually went out and bought them, a somewhat rare occurrence since I am a cheap son of a bitch.

Katie Dey - Flood Network
Spoiler:

This album came out sometime in late September I believe and was actually just something I found because it was on my Weekly Discovery playlist from Spotify. Usually this just churns out things that I have either heard before or don't really care about, but from time to time a gem will appear. The music of Katie Dey is one such gem.

Katie Dey essentially turns introspective bedroom pop into something a bit more interesting by mashing together a wide array of different sounds and strange vocal alterations to create a bizarre and spaced out kind of psychedelic music that manages to sound simultaneously organic and wildly artificial. Acoustic guitar strums along with synthetic drum machine pounding and random warbling electronic computer sounds accompanied by reverb soaked dull pulses of sound. The vocals are sometimes so over processed that they are entirely unintelligible. Most of the lyrics that do come through are rather bleak, as are most of her song titles, but the music doesn't come off as totally sad and depressing but rather wistful and imaginative.

Flood Network is her first official album, though she did release a tape in 2015 called Asdfasdf, which is also really dank and features even harder to understand warped vocals. Both of these releases just really do it for me. Abstract, dark lyrics couples with cool electronic noises, a massive dose of general weirdness and totally fucked up sounding vocals that end us sounding really horrible and grating at points. This absolutely intentional obfuscation of meaning and addition of eerie dissonance is something that I absolutely love.

Despite some warm online reviews of her music, this artist still sits in relative obscurity. Obviously she doesn't do it for everyone, but I have really fallen in love with the stuff she puts out and have listened to both of her releases somewhat obsessively for a month and a half now. Absolutely fantastic stuff in my opinion.


Whores. - Gold

Spoiler:
Whores first vomited up an EP in 2011, called Ruiner. It was good. Their next release came in 2013. It was also an EP and was called Clean. I also thought it was good. Finally, in 2016, after 2/3s of the band has been replaced, Whores. released a full length album. It has a gold trash can on the cover and I love that. The music also sounds very similar though it is produced slightly differently.

Essentially, Whores. are a slightly different and newer version of Unsane. They are a trio that plays the same instruments in almost exactly the same fashion and even copies the vocal delivery style of Chris Spencer, albeit a bit cleaner sounding. Hell, their record covers even look like Unsane record covers. They print the band name in the same sort of font at the top. For whatever reason, I like them more than Unsane though. You don't have to be original to make really awesome trashy sludge-metal influenced noise-rock I guess. Also, these guys seem to have more of a sense of humor. In this sense they are more like Pissed Jeans than Unsane. So I guess they are kind of like the middle ground between the two. If you are not familiar with either Unsane or Pissed Jeans, this review has been really quite meaningless up until this point.

Pretty much this band makes fun stuff if you are a fun of scummy American-style phat bass driven noise rock. Imma go see them in Austin the day after Thanksgiving. Should be fun.
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