Hidel Eye – Pick Out A Band Name
Genre: Indie Rock, Garage Rock, Alternative Rock
Similar artists: Black Midi, King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, Squid, New Country Black Road
Record labels hate it when their star musical artists opt to change. However, it is safe to acknowledge that recent history’s most important musical artists are the ones that have embraced an ability to shock their audiences, and even themselves, while not entirely erasing the legacy of what made them great.
These are the consistent, but not too extreme little left turns of which certain artists engulfed in the mainstream part of the music industry speak about regularly.
It is what, one would expect, a great singer like Jeff Buckley might have decided to do if fortune had smiled on us all and had prolonged his career.
Hidel Eye, perhaps like Buckley, are sick of all the pretty vocals and the powerful instrumental that they are able to provide. On Pick Out A Band Name they take the brand of emotional pop songwriting on the edge of a cliff and dangle it. Hidel Eye sound like a band looking for a balance between extremes. This song finds them closing in on their objective.
Jackie Futon – Act I: Milk Mouth Psychosis
Genre: Bedroom / Lo-fi Pop, Comedy
Similar artists: The Beatles, The Flaming Lips, Hasil Adkins, Elliott Smith, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Scott Walker
Jackie Futon provides Beatlesque melodies next to automatic writing on Act I: Milk Mouth Psychosis.
The world’s issues are probably not your problem until you think about them and turn them into the pink elephant that by mentioning you can help thinking about. Not everyone needs a cause, but once you embrace one, it will be awfully hard to leave behind or pretend as you’ve never cared about it.
The world’s problems are both highly visible and easy to ignore. They’re always heartbreaking. This is why they make great and terrible subject material for pop music. Many music fans love to hear someone project the hurt that they themselves hear. Others just want a good time and an escape. Misunderstand what the world wants to hear, and they’ll end up ignoring you. Or worse!
Matters of the heart are a lot like discussing a murder. The discussion never gets any more comfortable. Jackie Futon’s funny, experimental, “Beatles on a downer” of Act I: Milk Mouth Psychosis sounds like someone working through PTSD. Jackie Futon provides a gorgeous, strange sound that is easy to admire, and hard to fully discern.
