Genomic Clone – I Wouldn’t Pay Yesterday
Similar artists: John Frusciante, Atoms For Peace, Dead Kennedys
Genre: Punk, Alternative Rock
I know plenty of people who run their music careers in the same way that they’d run a donut shop that was only open twice a week on Tuesday afternoons. There’s not a huge deal of commitment to what they do. Frankly, a greater degree of involvement would simply not make sense.
Some of them take one day out of their schedule once every week and produce 10-12 songs. They then chop off those songs into what the internet now dubs “singles.” Other than promoting the tracks, they do not give their art a second thought until it’s time to produce another dozen songs.
It’s rare for music to surprise music fans these days. Genomic Clone’s “I Wouldn’t Pay Yesterday” attempts to do that by building on the daring strategies of some of modern rock’s most ambitious artists and then adding their own taste of experimentation.
“I Wouldn’t Pay Yesterday” doesn’t travel in a straight line, but it’s not experimental jazz, either. It has a destination, sure. But it doesn’t want to arrive at it without sweating and getting lost a few times. Quoting Thom Yorke and John Frusciante, Genomic Clone end up producing exciting work all of their own.
The Onesies – Presentation of the Gifts: “You Brought the Joy”
Similar artists: The Walkmen
Genre: Lo-fi Rock, Alternative rock
Musicians may have been too hasty to try and predict the future. What’s the future done for us lately? Still, in our delusion, we always assumed better days would be ahead of us. And, of course, we’ve always depended on our brightest minds to approximate the road toward progress.
So, rock n’ roll for the past decades has been obsessed with projecting four-to-the-floor grooves and songs about girls into the future, giving them an ultra-modernist tinge. Well, the future’s arrived, and it’s not much to sing about. With so much yolk on their faces, few can make the trek back.
The Onesies are traditionalist comedians, and they hear the best sounds back where we left them – all the way in the past. The warm jingle-jangle of “Presentation of the Gifts: You Brought the Joy” is unashamedly retro and purposely recorded as if using technology from the 1950s.
Modern producers might get a headache from this and start calling it lo-fi. But those in the know would call it “classic,” and they’d be right.
