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’