Robin Mookerjee
Miserablism
© 2007 Robin Mookerjee (842994011194) (format: CD-R)
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A bizarre and sickly descendant of classic melancholy British pop.
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This is bizarre alt-pop, a sickly distant descendant of '90s Britpop and '80s melancholy pop. Here the sounds are often processed into unrecognizability, drenched in echo and wah-wah without mercy, double-tracked. The tunes, once you get used to them, are hummable, surprisingly hummable - but almost never predictable. They twist like a water snake swimming through a muddy river. So, what we have here is the same but not the same, sincere and personal but distanced and calculated. It should help clean the wax from your ears. Or fill your ears with a new waxy substance. Could go either way.
It's like going to an art flick.
You hear epic swelling melodies with each scene, emotional melodies. Scene One: A man meets his neighbor on the stairs of his apartment building. The neighbor asks about his live-in girlfriend. Of course, she moved out; she doesn't live there anymore. The music repeats his despair as he repeatedly imagines meeting her on the street.
Scene Two: The film gets a little spooky. A child is playing on a playground swing while her father watches. He looks away for a second and the child is gone. All the children who have disappeared are seen hiding in a mysterious place, waiting for their chance to live again.
Scene Three: It gets downright macabre. A man meets an otherworldly creature, too beautiful and pure for this world, and assists her in leaving it.
It's a weird but sticky soundtrack. You'll get to like it.
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I have to have these songs surgically removed
author: Patbecause I can't get them out of my head. I would date these songs: they're smart AND beautiful. For once I don't regret the download $$.
an amazing album!
author: sandra newmanThis album has a mysterious appeal to it and inhabits a dream-universe all its own. Underground is in the voice of the missing (missing children, people who die in mysterious circumstances, etc.) and there's something spectral about all these songs. Also, they stick with you; I find myself remembering snatches of these songs and feeling their odd, sweet, mood days later. Great stuff!