Listening to the first track from "'82 Crowd of People" you might get the idea the album is going to be a nice, bizarre hodgepodge of found sounds. Alas a more orthodox style of music making ensues after those promising 2 & 1/2 minutes. Orthodox, yea, but certainly not conventional. Lot's of unrecognizable sounds placed strategically within the songs. Sometimes it sounds brilliant...but on the other hand it just as often sounds amateurish. Nothing wrong with that, mind you, but sometimes I can't help but say "let's get on with it then". Case in point, the meandering "Fuck Off" is a tedious 2 &1/2 minutes. But more often than than not '82 Crowd of People throw in just enough weird stuff to keep things interesting. Personally I think this material would benefit 100 fold by losing the pre-programmed drums and what sounds like pawn shop cheap keyboards (Casios, maybe?). I could almost imagine a group like The Fall doing something exciting with these tracks. As it stands you've got a record that sounds like it was recorded by some really bored people without plan or purpose, perhaps trying to kill some time during Spring Break. Promising at times. Curiously strange at others. And the rest of the time it gets pretty boring.
File under: '82 Crowd of People
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