When you decide to name your band Holy Fuck, several consequences will follow: (1) you won't see your albums shelved at Best Buy, (2) you're going to piss off a lot of critics if your awesomeness does not live up to that of your name, and (3) you will sell a lot of t-shirts. Thank goodness that Holy Fuck surpasses all expectations and conditions of requisite awesomeness. As for Best Buy, I highly doubt you'd find them there anyway given their unabashedly non-mainstream style.
Their debut features nine excellent tracks of instrumental electronic ecstasy with the occasional distorted yelps thrown in for good measure. Your brain will have a difficult time deciding if it wants to latch onto every minute modulation or drift back and enjoy the soundscapes as a whole.
There is one downside to the album: it clocks in at just under 37 minutes. Thankfully, when the album ends, you’re free to start it again from the top. In fact, it continues to sound better with each listen. Oh, and this is most definitely a headphones album. You should really stop listening to music on your crappy laptop speaker anyway.
Streamable Track: "Lovely Allen"
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1.27.2008
Holy Fuck - LP (2007)
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Bah, I hate it when bands feel the need to tack on an extra-weird ending to an otherwise great song. It's like they're saying: "Are you enjoying this, listener? Well, that's a shame, because here's 20 seconds of beeps for you! Can't you understand that we're not mainstream?"
But, if this is how they lead into the next track, then I have no problems with it.
Actually, it is a lead-in to the next track. I definitely appreciate that they're trying to have the entire album flow, but I agree that it does sometimes take away from individual songs working to their best when removed from the context of the album.
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