Brotha Lynch Hung - Coathanga Strangla album review
Brotha Lynch Hung's 2011 album Coathanga Strangla sounds like a badass horror movie. That is not surprising since the album was specifically formatted and laid out as a horror movie with many similarities by him. The album has solid story telling backed with descriptive lyrics on his songs. This album has music that would be suitable for a soundtrack in a movie. Think about the film scores and songs used in movies of the psycho thriller genre and horror movies. Why his album has that horror movie sample sound. His songs are good to include on a soundtrack for a major movie or an underground indie movie/film.
Brotha Lynch Hung - Coathanga Strangla was the best Strange Music album of 2011. This album was just as horrorcore and gruesome as Dinner And A Movie and Season Of Da Siccness. Horrorcore rap meets new school rap on this album. These are his cannibal sessions. The Coathanga Strangla album is serving an appetizer for all things to come. So have dinner and a movie while you wait.
Now the album cover itself is similar to a scene similarly seen in a horror film or a poster advertising a horror movie. That's no coincidence. You can see a black mask which quickly gives away serial killer vibes. Some may think the album cover was based on an original concept by Brotha Lynch Hung. The album cover looks like a badass horror movie made in 2010 or 2011. The color scheme follows the format of a horror film or a mystery novel.
Now the only downside to the Coathanga Strangla album is the amount of guest artists featured on the songs. Lynch could have reduced the amount of guest artists on his songs for his Coathanga Strangla album. Lynch can hold down his own weight on his songs as he’s done decades prior.
Spit It Out deals with paranoia. His hurtful rhyming is what makes this song brehsive. Lynch and COS are telling us to reject false information or anything you believe to be untrue. If it sounds to good too be true, then it probably is. If anything tastes funny, spit it out!
Lynch has been struggling to keep focused on his lyrics because of his problems, but he knows that he’ll get back in the game! He was taught to just do him though but won't follow directions. Cup of liquor at the intersection while he clenching on his weapon. He is contemplating suicide while thinking about little Kevin. He is thinking about his girlfriend and his situation. He is also thinking about how his world will end tragically.
So many people mad at him. He makes them go away magically. But he just puts it behind him until they find him. This is perfect timing. This is what you wanted. So he is going out for the fried meat. Sorry he can't believe the fucking lies that you told him. Because loyalty is loyalty but you don't know about that.
If anything tastes funny, spit it out. Don't trust it, don't eat it! Somebody's trying to poison Lynch. Somebody's trying to get in his life.
Can you taste it? Can you smell it in the air? Smell like bodies in the basement. Come take a walk with COS down a road so sacred. Dead man walking scars underneath the bracelet. No leaves on the trees dusty roads. No pavement. No sunshine. Just a lot of raining. One gun, one mind.
Every room vacant in the house is colder than the glacier. Bloody stage shit. Everything aching can't repair itself. Every mirror in here is broken like COS can't stare at himself. He see clears through the smoke because he got air in himself.
Now Lynch is going through the pain and he’s to blame. They think the money and fame equals insanity. It's a Strange game. He lets it stay the same. That's why it seems like he’s hitting you with the same rhyme game time. Hard to get along with sometimes. That's hard life. Compare it to the hard right. It's going to be a long night and nothing to bitch about.
Suicide Watch is a continuation and follow-up to I Tried To Commit Suicide. Brotha Lynch Hung raps about why he is on suicide watch.
Brotha Lynch Hung is in an all black khaki suit in an all black room feeling like he’s in the back of the room. And he is strapped like something out of a movie. Brotha Lynch Hung goes through the jungle with a machete. He hunts loose and cuts throat. That's too practical. Yet he did perform a tactical movement. Next thing you know he was loose and moving. Killing everybody in sight and then smashing out. Lynch doesn't know what's happening. Maybe he’s blacking out.
Anybody'll tell you that nigga's an acid mouth. He is cruising past your house. He’ll start chewing his meat if his ass is out. Hit Lynch with the .50 and get your brains blasted. Dumping the dead niggas in caskets.
Lynch tore his head like cotton. Call the coroner because Lynch is leavin' him in a corner. Someone called his boys up. They gon' be looking for him. Soon enough Lynch will disappear in the morning.
4/5****!!
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Mikey Mason - Barbarian Jetpack album review
Barbarian Jetpack by Mikey Mason is straight up nerd rock to the extreme. Mikey wrote some songs about all the things that make us squee for this album of his. Who knew that the city of Indianapolis could produce such good rock music?
Earworm is a disturbing nerd rock song about the worm that is living inside Mikey’s head. More specifically, this worm is living in a spot on his brain that's out of reach. This is one of those songs about all the things that make us squee.
Mikey’s got an itch, an itch he can't scratch that is located on a spot on his brain that is out of reach. Mikey’s got a worm inside of his head. An earworm he can’t rid of or out of himself.
He’s done something he just can't undo. And now the earworm wants to go inside of you. And what would you get if you were to take the earworm on? You would forget what life was like before this song. If Mikey can get earworm to live in your head, maybe the earworm will leave and let Mikey be.
And it's too late. There's nothing you can do. Now the earworm lives inside of you. And maybe you'll spread the earworm too.
Steampunk Enough is about a gentleman who asks a woman to go out on a date with only for her to turn him down because he is not steampunk enough. He tries on several costumes in attempts to get her to notice him. This gentleman will do anything to win her steampunk love. Steampunk Enough is a nerd rock meets steampunk music type of song.
This gentleman saw the custom goggles this lady had strapped above her ears, He went out, bought a Nerf gun, and slapped on a couple gears. He walked up to tell her, “Hello.”. She looked away and said, “Goodbye.”. Turns out he's not steampunk enough for her.
He bought a gothic vampire costume online strapped some belts in random places and glowing contacts for his eyes. She walked right past him to her friends. Not even looking at him twice. She's got discerning tastes and no time for amateurs. No dilettantish effort or halfhearted poser work could be steampunk enough for her.
He went home and did some research on etsy.com about what steampunk fashion was. Next he cut a pair of leather bracers from a purse he stole from his mother Got vintage clothing from estate sales that he wore with aplomb. However that was still not steampunk enough for her. There's just something about a woman in a corset with a cane and hydraulic shoulder armor that will drive a man insane. From her leather boots and jodhpurs to her monocle and gloves, he'll do anything to win her steampunk love.
He knew he'd been found lacking. So he went back to the start. Then he found a diabolic genius to replace his body parts with cybernetic limbs and a chronometric heart. Now he's steampunk enough for her. From his functioning jet pack to his retracting metal spurs, now he's steampunk enough for her.
5/5*****!
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Jonah Knight - The Age Of Steam: Strange Machines album review
Jonah Knight - The Age Of Steam: Strange Machines was the first album in his Supernatural Steampunk series. His album is defined by lyrical content and showmanship rather than the musical styles given that his album is a steampunk music album. A significant majority of his songs are very horrific because they have that horrifying feeling to them. Many of the songs on this album use science fiction and fantasy themes.
Welcome To The Age Of Steam showcased Jonah Knight’s steampunk roots and energy. This song helped make him a staple in the steampunk community. The song explained his achievements he reached when he was building his gadgets and contraptions. Hold your hopes. Face your fears. Dust off your dreams. Welcome to the age of steam.
Jonah was just a boy when he built my clockwork telescope. He caught glimpses of the people who lived up in the sky. And now he’s grown with science in his bones and one day he’ll build an airship that'll make it up that high. His ancestors that came before are back and knocking on his bedroom door. All the ghosts he’s seen so far whisper that he should look to the stars.
Jonah spends his days in a laboratory 20,000 feet deep under the hill. Now it seems I have some empty slabs to fill. All night in the cemetery digging bodies from their graves attaching these contraptions to their decomposing heads. That’s why all these zombies are walking around. He dug each one from out of the ground. Jonah Knight was like a supernatural Professor James Moriarty building an undead army.
His mission is the exploration of dangerous places aided by scientific devices. Every quest for mythic lore takes us to some foreign shore. So many people refuse to believe but he has have faith in both the ghost and the machine!
The Dead Crawl From The Earth Alive! explained how Knight was like a supernatural Professor James Moriarty building an undead army. He tests his new invention that will animate these corpses to his whim. However his plans go awry and backfire on him since the zombies are clawing on the stone trying to break these walls and eat his bones
Jonah builds plans and devices that amaze and thrill in his laboratory. But tonight he will begin to test his new invention that will animate these corpses to his whim. Ladies will faint. Gentlemen will cry. Fire burns the earth. Smoke fills the sky. You can run and hide or fight and die when the dead crawl from the earth alive.
From the top of his tower, he looks down on the ancient cemetery outside of this Victorian town. One by one. Your cities fall, they're overrun by his zombies. So surrender to his zombies or be crushed under his thumb.
2 months have come and gone since Jonah raised the dead. Every part of his plan has gone wrong. The dead have come back home. They're clawing on the stone trying to break these walls and eat his bones.
It seems you can't control the undead. They have a hunger that must be fed. But he have a plan to survive. There's a machine that he’s devised that will send them back to Hell if he still have enough time.
Once Around The Sun is one of the more spiritual songs on the album that is spiritually inclined. This song explains that his presence like a ghost will be there where you are.
Jonah lives like a ghost in the age of steam. These walls can't keep him from you. On every darkened street where gas light cannot gleam. If you're there he will be too. Every broken heart can be replaced by another part until you are machine through and through.
He will carry you once around the sun. He will follow too once and then we're done. You can't call them dreams because they come when he is awake. Clutter up the scenery. He sees strange machines traveling through space waiting for us to fly away. Every single ghost will drift away. On that day he will fade.
5/5*****!
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Jonah Knight - South Dakota album review
South Dakota by Jonah Knight is a fantasy themed concept album based off the American state of South Dakota. Jonah Knight takes us on a journey through the back roads of South Dakota, searching for ghosts while armed with a haunted guitar. The album has songs that revolve around the culture of South Dakota. His album uses a paranormal modern folk sound and style. Think modern folk meets steampunk music.
Jonah Knight takes us on a journey through the back roads of South Dakota, searching for ghosts while armed with a haunted guitar on All These Ghosts (All Together). The song is an electric guitar driven song with a twangy country folk sound.
All These Ghosts (All Together) is one of the more spiritual songs on the album that is spiritually inclined. The song is something from another time and place casting a familiar shade. Faces and places from a former life. The song captures essence from a former lifetime. Jonah explains how he keeps seeing things out the corner of his eye when we were all together. We may change but all these ghosts are the same.
Jonah is like Christmas lights still up on Labor Day. Something from another time and place casting a familiar shade. Faces and places from a former life. He keep seeing things out the corner of his eye when we were all together.
Sometimes he feels like flyin' dandelions. Sometimes this city feels like it ain't even tryin’. He’s working to hold on to things that he can barely remember. He’s trying to keep on reminding you of when we were all together.
The brightest lights of the city scape just run up his electric bill. His full moon like ancient runes dancing on his window sill. Cameron's dog still walks these streets and everybody knows her name. We may change but all these ghosts are the same.
From the creatures swimming down in the deep blue sea to the spirits flying around snowy mountain peaks. There's one little town where the road goes ever on. Not where he was born, but it's where he came from. When he was all together.
A 5 minute drive to the midnight sky. Shoulder to shoulder stars. Down in the dirt up through the universe. Captured in a jar. Somewhere on Dakota Street he carved everybody's name. He watched you rise up to the sky leaving us in pouring rain.
The George Clooney Song is one of the loonier folk songs about how Jonah Knight himself could be George Clooney. He gets quite theatrical on this song by using movie related terms such as “Hollywood ending”, “soundtrack”, “montage”, and “leading lady”.
Jonah doesn't dance, but he got out and danced after he kidnapped the groom and the bride. The soundtrack played and the whole room swayed. He happened to look over to the side Their eyes locked. He left a good impression even though he didn't shave for the wedding.
He’ll write the leading lady a letter out by the elevator. But can she hear his voiceover when she reads it? They finally had a beer and when the montage clear the story took a turn
This is what part of the letter to the leading lady said.
You know the camera is rolling
Are you my leading lady, maybe?
I could be George Clooney
You know the camera is rolling
You're not my leading lady baby
But I'm still George Clooney
Cuz I know life is a movie, baby
Without a Hollywood ending
And since life is a movie, baby
I'll be George Clooney...
Jonah thought that he was cast in a lite romantic comedy. But the rewrite says it's a drama. That the joke's on him. Jonah got a letter from her mother apologizing for the behavior of her daughter. She said he should keep in touch. She said her daughter is a nut. This leads Jonah to put their family on his Christmas card list. Because he think that they're the ones he really misses ever since that night when he slept on her brother's floor.
The messages to Catching Echoes is “Sometimes words are only words. Just because you listed doesn't mean that you've heard.” and “One day you turn around and everybody's gone.”. The song was about remembering the times he had with his friends. But now Jonah is all alone in this empty room catching echoes. One day you turn around and everybody's gone.
Jonah stood in rushing water surrounded by his friends. That cold Vermillion River washed them around the bend. Like catfish they fought the tide and on the banks they dried. That day is burned in him, but no words survive. Sometimes words are only words. Just because you listed doesn't mean that you've heard. But now Jonah is all alone in this empty room catching echoes.
He used to watch the stars on every rise and every fall. The comet didn't seem so far away, but it grew so very small. One day you turn around and everybody's gone.
Only so many places to go. Now it's just all of them again. The world outside is very small when winter has settled in. Time is flying by while simultaneously so slow. He’s traveled into the future while still locked in a tableau.
The Desert is one of the more poetic songs on the album. The lyrics were written, sung, and performed in the form of poetry.
It was The Cowboy, The Cherry Street Grille, or whatever they call this place now. Sunlight trickled through the moss green shade highlighting your eyebrow. Jonah has been busy just sloshing around. Swimming through the motions like a champ. Awkward cup and saucer overflow with chatter. Bunched up, her napkin was damp.
"I don't think I can handle this," She drips, runs, and she swells. Surrounding them is The Desert. A mournful kingdom of sand. Deep in his heart stretches The Desert. A dry and primitive land.
He can still feel her misting like rain. Though years like weeds have grown.Ahead the road swept, in the river she leapt, skipping The Desert like a stone.
Read how the lyrics were written, sung, and performed in the form of poetry.
It was The Cowboy, The Cherry Street Grille, or whatever they call this place now.
Sunlight trickled through the moss green shade highlighting your eyebrow.
I've been busy just sloshing around. Swimming through the motions like a champ.
Awkward cup and saucer overflow with chatter. Bunched up, her napkin was damp.
Hearts like coffee, bitter and sharp, secrets I'm ready to spill.
"I don't think I can handle this,"
She drips, she runs, she swells.
Surrounding us is The Desert. A mournful kingdom of sand.
Deep in my heart stretches The Desert. A dry and primitive land.
I hate The Cowboy, The Cherry Street Grille, or whatever they call this place now.
Everything changes, everything grows, but not me. I never learned how.
Always rewinding, never put things behind me. You're like my lightning bolt scar.
Now that we're cheated out of everything we've needed, gone, but you'll never be far.
I can still feel her misting like rain. Though years like weeds have grown.
Ahead the road swept, in the river she leapt, skipping The Desert like a stone.
Don't Turn Your Back On South Dakota is a nod to Jonah’s South Dakota’s roots. He tells people not to mess around with South Dakota or to take that state as a joke.
Don't turn your back on South Dakota. South Dakota is up to some shit that you'll never see coming. The State of South Dakota might pass some laws that you'll find appalling, confusing, asinine, and unconstitutional. What you gonna do? You can't do nothing.
Go and make your jokes. You're such a funny fella. You won't be laughing and you won't be smiling. Nebraska was first. Now Minnesota is falling. We know where you sleep and we can be there by morning. Might think you're safe down in Virginia. But you'll never be safe from South Dakota. So don't turn your back on South Dakota.
Into The Sky is another one of the more poetic songs on the album. The song discusses and explains how the mountains contain the memories of all those cold and rainy days.
Somewhere behind you are the mountains. The mountains are where you cannot stay. Somewhere behind you are the memories of all those cold and rainy days. This time you've got to learn to fly. This time you've got to rise.
Somewhere inside of you is an ocean. You can drift on lazy waves. Somewhere inside of you is a quiet beach. You spend warm and sunny days. There's just one road and it goes everywhere. This one road can take you anywhere. There's always danger on the road. Moving like a river flows. One wrong step you'll be swept far from home.
Mr. Deja Vu is about how Jonah and his lover were separated at one point in time. He gets this sinking feeling like he’s been through this before. Jonah wants to leave the current place he is residing in because he is experiencing Deja vu.
As Jonah moves his desk to block off the door, he gets this sinking feeling like he’s been through all of this before He made a few friends, did decent work, and got a nice review. Deja vu. Although this facility is nice and the people here respect him for what he does, he’d rather be unemployed with his lover. They call Jonah Mr. Deja Vu.
Maybe he’s only four states away from where he wants to be. West or east, it doesn't matter to him. Let's go see what there is to see. He might miss it here in five or seven years. Jonah claims that he is designed to rewind. For him repeating something/anything is the same as breathing.
Maybe he could make it though the summer by saving up some money for the winter. Maybe he could add on one more year. The future, like magic, would just appear. Everything he has fits in his car. The border to the north is not that far.
There's some secret code that gets triggered by a long stretch of road. It's the signal that it's time to go. But Jonah doesn't have to go alone. He’s not the only one who knows.
Sun God is about Jonah trying to find his inner soul. His inside wants to see the light and his outside wants to see the dark. His inside burns to see the sun that his outside has won. The God in the sun might just be the same. A fist full of dirt that the wind blows away.
South Dakota Calls is about Jonah’s return back to his home state of South Dakota. Jonah Knight takes us on a journey through the back roads of South Dakota armed with a guitar. The album has songs that revolve around the culture of South Dakota. Memories are hazy but at the center these moments shine.
Jonah has always said that he would go back to his home state of South Dakota some day. But the world is wide and he gets lost on the way. He keeps having dreams of where the prairies touch the sky. He’s put it off long enough. Now this is the time.
Memories are hazy but at the center these moments shine. From Rapid City to Sioux Falls. All the way down to Old Vermilion town (Vermilion, South Dakota). The South Dakota call says you can take your time. Just remember to come back home.
That perfect moment as if on cue. One little town rises up into view. Everything around here reminds him of you. And if you ever wonder where Jonah has gotten off to, he has gone back home. Some day you really should go back home. Some day we will all be ghosts. Listen to the voices come the early fall. You will hear when South Dakota Calls.
5/5*****!!
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Tom Brosseau - The Prairie album review
The Prairie by Tom Brosseau showcased and exemplified a keen listener and observer of the American prairie, the land and its people, whether factual or fiction. The Prairie is flecked with stark realization yet his songwriting remains hopeful. His songwriting style is very poetic especially with his lyrics.
Tom talked about the first time he had seen an electric powered car on the song Electric Car. A folk song about an electric car is quite different and interesting. The song is quite short though.
Tom saw an electric car on the road today just outside of town going about 55 mph without making any kind of sound. The brand new electric car has hit the lots and everyone is wondering how they run. Clean and easy sailing every single mile. And when you get low, stop and connect it for a-while. So come down and get yours. It doesn't matter how much you make. Both federal and state are gonna be there to give you a little break.
My North Dakota Home is a nod to Tom’s North Dakota’s roots. He showed pride in his home state of North Dakota. The song showcased and exemplified a keen listener and observer of the American prairie.
A red Corvair rusted in the red barn for many years. Tom used to dream how free it would feel to be behind the wheel Running in and out of the poplar trees. Poplar leaves shaking in the breeze over the land of his North Dakota home. A taste of dust from miles away. The weather vane on the silo dome points every which way home. There is no dearer place to Tom than his North Dakota home.
These lines were the most poetic lines in the song.
Running in and out of the poplar trees
Poplar leaves shaking in the breeze
Across the way, the combines comb
O'er the land of my home
My North Dakota home
The Prairie showcases rural American life on the country side and on the prairie lands. The Prairie is flecked with stark realization yet his songwriting remains hopeful.
Tom is just walking on what feels like an abandoned wagon trail with no destination in mind or sight. There's a new dawn siding the scales. The babbling water of a brook he can imagine. Renewed by the long shade of night. There is no better way to regain complexion and turn to face the light.
You just now notice how you look compared to how you feel. You were right about the trail, there's remnants of a wagon wheel. Something tells Tom what you spend your time on only you will invariably wear. Just pick a spot on the horizon and imagine yourself out there. The heartache returns, and though it holds you down it brings you closer to the source. To live inside a moment like this, there's no great power, no greater force.
5/5*****!
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Frenchy and the Punk - Hooray Beret album review
Hooray Beret by Frenchy and the Punk is another splendid electro swing album with vintage jazz sounds and a dark cabaret tempo. The electro swing duo show their love, admiration, and deep fixation on French culture throughout the entire album. Songs on this album are sung in both the English language and French language. A fresh electro swing album from 2019.
Frenchy and the Punk show their love, admiration, and deep fixation on French culture in the song Je T'aime Paris. The song is about Paris, France. Je t’aime, Paris. I love you, Paris.
Let’s go to the Eiffel Tower. Step by step higher and higher at the top to the spire. Jules Verne is in the sky. Let’s go up to Sacré Cœur (The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris). Step by step to the pearl. Not to pray Cabaret. Up so high to the city below. Cobblestone bridges bend Down to the Seine River. Bread and cheese is all we need in the city of love. Let’s not wait until it’s too late.
This is meant to be in the city of lights. Dance ‘till dawn vagabonds.Walk along les Champs Elysées.
The song Monsters deals with the subject of how monsters are taking over the world and must be stopped of course. Monsters is one of the more darker songs on the album due to that dark cabaret. Oh the monsters of the world.
Frenchy walked off the plank of the mothership and down to the depths of metropolis. She swam around until she was dry. Then she walked the carousel of the sky bleeding blue and grey.
Welcome to our darkest day. Carry the torch on the interstate. Burn the bridges close the gates. Monsters are coming. They’re running with empty heads and empty hearts. They’re needing and feeding on everything in their path. Their hunger’s never quelled. They revel in their greed honoring only their own needs. Reverse into the darkness. Knowledge and truth behind us. What do we have before us but blistered feet and shattered seams?
The sun set on a field of gold. The horseman turned it all to coal. A mother held her baby close. The seed cracked open and the rain came down. The sun burst through and the moon disappeared into the darkness. Turning all to black and white. Robbing us of kindness. Forcing all to fight. Monsters disguise themselves as shepherds. They lie, cheat, and steal. It’s for us to break the cycle.
4/5****
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