I’ve
reviewed both Aaron Martin and Robert Ellis, so while his name sounds familiar
to me I actually have never heard Aaron Ellis before. This
is at the heart of it a cassingle, as it is one song per side, and I’m not sure
why there is just the cassette and case with writing in Sharpie as opposed to
artwork or even just a single piece of paper being thrown in with some info on
it, but it does manage to stand out from everyone else in that aspect.
The song
on Side A has these static skips in a dark and industrial way that you might
hear from “Wish” era Nine Inch Nails.
The vocals are screwed and just repeat “The Spooky Boys” over and
over. It makes me feel as if the artist
name here should be The Spooky Boys and this should be their theme song on some
level.
The way
it comes out though is as this sort of dark hip hop and I question whether or
not there is such a subgenre of hip hop as goth or scary hip hop. Granted, Insane Clown Posse does have that
horror hip hop thing going on, but this isn’t really quite the same as all that
so I’m not sure where to put it.
On the
flip side, the song we hear is chopped up with high pitched screamy bits and it
is seemingly on a loop. There are beats and woodwinds. It is quite different from the first song,
but not really what you would consider to be a true “B-Side” as it could just
as easily serve as the “single”.
Ultimately,
these are two songs that combine various elements of other music I enjoy and
thus just leave me fascinated at their creation. Sometimes it’s not about what you have but
rather how you use it.
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