People always recommend music to me. They’ve heard the next best thing or they ARE the next best thing or they think Ill like it and to be honest with you I have really narrow appreciation of music
There really isn’t a grey area to me there is the awesome pile and the crap pile and sometime a band goes back and forth depending on what I’m feeling that day. Which is why music is so personal
So when The Blaqk Year was suggested to me part of me said YAY something new.. another part said CRAP what if they suck. But just like Mary said were honest and unmerciful right right?
Yeah well what do you do if you love it?
Welcome to February 8, 2010 (though you’re reading this on February 9) and today has to be the best music day in a long time. Not only did I discover the joy of A Place to Bury Strangers and the weirdest thing Ive heard in months The Blaqk Years.
The Blaqk Years are bizarre there are sections of music that through headphones almost sounds like someone is emptying the dishwasher. The clanky tiwtters of unknown metals. The hook here is the tempos. There’s a whole new genre growing its called “confuse the hell out of me core’ what starts as dance hall techno morphs and changes and drum machines itself into a vortex. Arcadia House is just that a fun house of sound. There are moments where it seems fiddle blue grass then rips off in a completely different direction almost as if the tempo changes when you’re busting out your best dance move. What the hell is going on.. and its a great confusion
Then it you read that the band members are
16yrs old
and suddenly you realize that this is way more complex than first determined. This adult in its maturity and its tapestry of sound. Arcadia House has that intricacy !6 yr old boys are tools, they have no depth they have no swaggah, they’re psychological messes with hero complexes bad grades and damp sheets…..right? No?
No
The Blaqk Years is far more than that and if this is sophomore release my God what is in store for them? “Blinded in Fire” has all the makings of a great pop song.. I hate their myspace as its covered in Spacewhore fans. They deserve FANS not poofed out tarts who I doubt do anything but friend bands unheard. Its almost like spam and they absolutely don’t deserve that. But again I’m not sure how much attention they’re getting so that’s where we come in. A little mature and clothed props for a band that if they’re able to put up with the bullshit, get some proper representation, and get the hell out of Australia.
Check um out