This
particular Orlando Furious cassette has two songs on the first side and three
on the second. He is what most writers
would refer to as “eclectic” if only because they lack a better word to
describe this sound. I don’t have a
better word myself, but I just like to think of this as being diverse yet
contained.
Right
away, I can hear something like Cake come through. As it grows, the funk comes out as do the
organs. It becomes poetic on many
levels. It resembles Beck. It has beats and it has audio samples at the
end of Side A.
On Side
B there is an acoustic song called “Children” which has an EFS feel to it. There are also some loops going down. It’s not really something you can pin down
because it seemingly changes from song to song if not even more so than
that.
I
remember the day I first heard Beck very clearly. The “Loser” song came on the radio and I
eventually bought his CD. I then
listened to a bunch of different songs that you could tell were by the same guy
but weren’t in the same genre on the whole.
This is how I feel about Orlando Furious after hearing “Popular” and I
wish more artists made me feel this way.
Hey cheers for the write up man!!
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