Florida Equals Death
“Post Information” (Anonymous Dog)
On my
first listen of “Post Information” I was taken back. It begins with a conversation between two
people and quickly turns into noise.
Not just any noise, but the sound of objects breaking. Glass bottles rolling. All of the sounds that can be identified on
some sort of sound effects album or old time radio show. This made me question what I was listening
to exactly and why I liked Florida Equals Death in the first place (I remember
being fond of their two song EP I previously reviewed)
But
what you get when you listen to Florida Equals Death, on this tape, is not a
specific genre or sound. You get a
mixture of many different things and they can either all come out at once or in
pieces.
Some of
the most dominant sounds on this tape are a cross between psychedelic rock
(Because I kept referencing Pink Floyd and Flaming Lips) and what I like to
call artcore, though I’m not sure a genre exists (It’s what Fear Before the
March of Flames sounds like) If this was a little bit more on the metal side,
it could even start to resemble Backstabbers, Inc.
As we
close out Side A, there is a person speaking while another person keeps
responding “Yeah” over and over. Does
anyone aside from me know someone who likes to respond repeatedly in the
affirmative? Doesn’t it drive you
crazy? I used to be much more sociable
(No, really) so if I met someone like that today I might have to point out that
little nuance.
I also
like how Side B begins with a song about there being no “I” in team. As anyone will tell you, there may not
be an “I” in team, but that letter does
appear in many other important words like, well, important for example.
Aside
from previous mentioned artists, I can also hear a bit of that crazy poet
coming out in these songs, something along the lines of Jim Carroll or Lou
Reed. If you can picture all of the
people I listed getting together to make music, it would probably not sound
anything like you imagine it but it could possibly come out sounding exactly
like this.
“Post Information”
is available for $5 however you want it, so why not get the cassette at one of
these two links:
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