Album title: Mouth Moods
Artist: Neil Cicierega
Genre: Mashup/Remix
Nationality: American
Release date: January 23
Position in Discography: Third
Fear Factor: Moderate
Familiar with this artist? No
Familiar with the genre or subgenre? No
I'm familiar with the idea of mashups, may have heard one or two, but a whole album of them? Will that not wear thin? Let's see. Hmm. It's certainly clever, all those snippets of different songs mixed together and somehow it doesn't sound like a total mess. The “Popcorn” one is clever. The song “300MB” is ****ing hilarious; “think about the capacity of a
three hundred megabyte computer!”
Must be from early eighties. Now they're talking about CD-ROMs. Oh my sides!
Floppy disks! Oh, please stop! It's too much! OK, the production on “Dear Dinosaur” is beyond ****. I don't know if it's just the YouTube version – which was the only way I could get this – though every other track up to this has been fine – or if this is making some statement about prehistoric recording techniques, but it's ****ing awful. Like those old dropouts you used to get on cassette tapes (what do you mean, shut up grandad?) or a radio badly tuned in. Awful.
I guess it was intentional, as we're back on track now with “Annoyed Grunt”. The sampled “D'oh!”'s here are great and really worked in well. This is very clever stuff, and by and large, very entertaining. The “YMCA” mashup is particularly impressive. Yeah, this was fun. Bigstyle.
Check out more from this artist? Quite likely
Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Yeah
Expectation Index: 8