The Blood Brothers

Young Machetes is a clashing, rambling urban nightmare built up with a cynical cycle of social sarcasm boiling over into shrieking nonsensical tirades. And it’s fantastic. The Blood Brothers have a tendency to personify places or inanimate objects by sexualizing them. Everything from seasons of the year, to machine guns is impulsively depraved. This album travels like a lyrical collage, taking everything from crushing personal experiences, to musical icons to thread a backward world of erratic violence, abandonment and prejudice. Equality is a joke, security is an abandoned ideal, and death is consuming all around is. These are the messages delivered with an aggressive mania that manages to be both desperate and bold. Highly recommended. (on another note-I apologize for the shitty resolution of a couple of photos on here)

Nine Inch Nails-The Slip

‘The Slip’ is a well constructed, concise furthering of the ideas that brought Trent Reznor into the music scene. The monotonous blaring vocals that had begun to fade on Year Zero dissipate even further on this album. (I’m deliberately not naming tracks because I want you to find the ones I’m speaking of) This is shown most strongly with the thundering second track characterized by surprisingly upbeat drums, fuzzy distorted guitars, and the anxious quiet that is Reznor’s voice. The album really has to be embraced as a concept, though. It’s rare when I come across an album when I can enjoy every song individually, as well as the entire album as a conceptual whole. This band is slowly evolving into the depressed paranoid enraged potential that has defined it since the beginning. Check out his work on the song ‘The Rise and Inevitable Fall Of Niggy Tardust.’ To see some of Reznor’s work between ‘Ghosts I-IV’ and ‘The Slip’

4 Minutes

I swear the more Timbaland progresses as a producer the more retro his sound is. It makes sense that his earlier material would be more experiemental- so of course 'Shock Value' is not going to be the same sound displayed in his and Magoo's collaboration 'Welcome to Our World' which debuted in 1997. All of his work does have a trailing sense of hip-hop rhythm underneath the complex interweaving melodies and selective DJ-scratching sounds and other comporable beat-boxing sound effects. The vocoded vocals at the beginning of '4 Minutes serve as an excellent introduction to Madonna and Justin Timberlake's exchange by showcasing his style and setting the tone for the main part of the track. As I've worked to see which types of music I adore and abhore I've pretty well found that it requires an assload of patience....If you're not prepared to give tracks multiple listens and take a longer look at lyrical use then you're probably only going to end up being interested in one type of music.

Interpol- Our Love to Admire

I was worried at first. Because based on random forum conversations I had been eavsdropping on, I would have assumed the Interpol album was absolute garbage. Irrational, but the word of mouth is very persuasive. So I began listening to it-starting with 'No I in Threesome', and I found it to be decent but lacking. In hindsight I believe it's because it didn't carry the epic musical weight that I've come to expect from Interpol. Their upbeat loneliness is prominent, flamboyant, melancholy and wonderful-particuarly culminating in tracks such as 'Mastodon', 'Who Do You Think?', and 'All Fired Up'.(which often makes me want to kick someone's ass) Anyhow, other then 'Threesome' I am thoroughly impressed and inspired by this album. Highly recommended album, from one of the most unique bands I've come across in a few eternities.

Marilyn Manson

The new Marilyn Manson album is depraved, depressing, and superb. Thankfully the commentary on the intentions of the music industry have been exhausted and discarded. The religious comments remain but are reintensified by the motifs of heart shaped sheets glasses and so on. One of the most fascinating elements of the album is the ever-prevalent personal touch to it all. Listening to this album is comparable to reading someone’s diary, and has a certain tinge of voyeurism to it all. A muse has come over Manson, and he has really come into his own as rock star with Eat Me, Drink Me with the flamboyant brooding we’ve come to expect from him. Sonically the group has evolved, and the stuttering wailing guitar licks of John 5 punctuate the dark elegance of this album. Hoarse vocals, epic guitar riffs, excellent bass, and even catchiness. Highly recommended. Below are a few links to songs off of the album. Enjoy
http://files-upload.com/340700/10-YouandMeandtheDevilMakes3.mp3.html
http://files-upload.com/340720/07-Evidence.mp3.html

Shop Boyz

So in the lyrical cesspool known as popular rap there are very few who can fulfill the promise of ‘changing the game’. Most of these groups showcasing new talent are exposed for overproduced clowns by the next season. Whether the public will acknowledge this or not, they want real music. I define real music as the following
1) Compositions that push to be innovative
2) Lyrics that turn a genre on it’s head
3) Passion for every nuance of involvement
4) Ignoring pessimistic critics who are negative for the sake of being difficult. With this in mind I recommend the Shop Boyz, whom I believe meet this criteria and are more talented then 8/10 rappers. Personally though I would avoid the song 'Rollin'. The Boyz seem out of their element on this track, but otherwise I would recommend the album Rockstar Mentality almost without hesitation. Below is a link to their song 'Totally Dude' If you want to hear some more tracks just post me a comment.
http://files-upload.com/340381/09-shopboyz-totallydude.mp3.html