People
often wonder why I don’t give music ratings but rather just write about
it. One of the biggest reasons (Aside
from my feeling that grades are for grade school and I’ve been out of high
school since ’97) is that you occasionally will catch these bands that make you
rethink how you evaluate music.
I love
8bit music, as it is a genre I sort of stumbled upon last year somehow and have
seem to yet lose interest in. In fact,
in the past year or so I have only somehow managed to love and appreciate the
CHICKENANDROFLS lead style of music even more.
While I
would still give most any piece of music by CHICKENANDROFLS a 5/5, if I
believed in ratings, I might have to go back and reconsider some other ratings
if I did such things because this takes what I think of as that traditional
8bit core of music and makes it accessible on almost a pop level.
The
music reminds me of something between a catchy pop punk band like Hellogoodbye
mixed with the energy of an 8bit band I love like Slime Girls. (Slime Girls came to my mind first when
listening to this, just further proving their place in 8bit history, or perhaps
“8bitstory”)
On some
level, this also brings out qualities of an indie rock band that I do so enjoy,
which could be like Speedy Ortiz, though the vocals also can come out like a
better version of Sheryl Crow.
Overall
though, the music is great and something I’ve always dreamed about hearing but
never heard before now, but also I got entrapped by the lyrics because the song
“Bloom” talks about not wanting to drive.
If I
was in the nature of giving ratings, and I rated things out of 5, I would have
to reconsider my entire system as this music goes far above and beyond
that.
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