![]() Creepy strings reminiscent of Rossz Csillag Alatt Született creep in along with shuffling drums, rattling snares, and haunting lyrics. ’10th Circle Of Winnipeg’ kicks the album off with atmospheric horror film style dripping sounds, the kind of foley reserved for Saw or Hostel. ![]() He’s up to his old tricks of strings in minor chords – and lyrics like “my world is broken in two tonight” sung by Snares himself adds a rare level of intimacy. 8BIT DRUMMER CREEP FULLIt’s an album full of conflict angry, melancholy and hopeless in parts, but also full of love and confession, even a little bit of silly. Once you get over the fact it’s not groundbreaking, it’s great. There are elements of almost all his albums, which, as a fan, is great, but is also uncharacteristically unimaginative – though this could perhaps be down to the fact that he is releasing different styles of music under a number of different aliases. He’s certainly not breaking any new ground with this album it is essentially a collaboration, in glorious strobing breakcore technicolour, of him, himself and him over the past ten years. According to Wikipedia, “caught between the two natures… Centaurs typify the struggle between civilization and barbarism.” Well, that’s pretty apt. The album cover depicts a gothic scene of Snares as a Centaur, naked and hairy, wearing an expression of innocent serenity. I can imagine he has a sign on his door: ALL MUSIC IS PRETENTIOUS, DON’T FALL FOR IT. He also stated that his influences are as diverse as bebop, Depeche Mode, Hindemith and Tchaikovsky, but revealed he listens to very little new stuff. But for someone who professes to dislike music – in a rare interview in The Quietus back in 2012 he was quoted as saying “much of the music I hear just sounds like someone’s ridiculous choices, based on their idea of what music should be… it gets really transparent” – he makes a lot of it. Apparently he once didn’t leave his house for 6 months. Well, to me, it all comes down to this mud pie thing, the mix of pitch-bended acid sounds, monstrous hoovers, time stretches, whatever miscellany of samples floats your boat, from porn to Béla Bartók, breaking up the peace and love of the amen break and playing with time signatures until you’ve got one big beautiful coagulation of chaos. “We’re all doing different shit, so why is it all breakcore?” mused Drop The Lime, back in 2006. You remember mud pies, the most disgusting mix of gruesomeness you could fit into whatever receptacle you had close to hand, mud and dirt and old cigarette butts, perhaps mixed together with a bit of mouldy apple juice – what is it that’s so satisfying about mixing up a whole lot of grim things and watching them coagulate?Īs a genre, breakcore is a tough one. At their most darkly atmospheric, his songs are a cross between a horror film and an auditory mud pie. He rewrote some lyrics and it was all there… the first single.My Love Is A Bulldozer is dark, beautifully chaotic, and cathartic. It was a process, him learning to say what he wanted but in a more poetic and open sort of way. Does it have to be so literal?’ Not that I was thinking about the single I just wanted him to make the song great. I told him, ‘What you have is great, but it can be better. I sat down with James and talked to him about his words. Then they heard James’ lyrics and realized the song was about crib death. Twenty years after the song’s release, producer Bob Rock shared the original concept of the song’s lyrics with Music Radar:Īt first, based on the music and the riff, the band and their management thought it could be the first single. Instead of a soothing thing, the table’s turned. ![]() He can’t sleep after that and it works the opposite way. So the guy in the song tells this little kid that and he kinda freaks. You know when you wake up with that shit in your eye? That’s supposedly been put in there by the sandman to make you dream. I wanted more of the mental thing where this kid gets manipulated by what adults say. All the bits of ‘Enter Sandman’ are derived from the main riff. We wanted to streamline and simplify things. The 10-minute, 12-tempo-changes side of Metallica had run its course. ‘Enter Sandman’ was the first thing we came up with when we sat down for the songwriting process in July 1990. However, the Sandman of European folklore actually represents the bringer of good dreams. The song follows the theme of childhood fear, in nightmares, with the eponymous Sandman symbolizing the sleep that he dreads. The song was Metallica’s biggest radio hit and it’s considered their signature song. The lead single from Metallica’s commercially successful self-titled album, “Enter Sandman” was certified platinum, selling over 1 million copies. ![]()
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