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Fairly even but good listen

bowery boy | seattle | 10/13/2005

(3 out of 5 stars)

"it sounds a lot like chris clark's clarence park meets mouse on mars idiology meets akufen's my way. utopia is an awesome track with shredded r'n'b diva vocals that sputter all over the place. hard t*ts is another track that stands out with it's piano melodies and crunchy beats that could easily have been lifted from freescha's whats come inside you. for the most part jackson keeps the tempo at a consistent mid pace throughout the entire disc so it's a pretty even listen. it's the tracks with the vocals that stand out from the pack but not neccessarily in a good way. the track with the little girl nonsensically rambling on and on is a good example. radio caca has a hidden track that starts in at about 18:47. i hate hidden tracks. this is good but not remarkable and there's nothing new or exciting here that hasn't been done before."

My first album review

theoryjean | planet earth & far beyond | 04/05/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"honestly i never do album reviews, but i came accross this album, and i kindof had to. my vocabulary isn't all complex and wordy like most album reviews i listen to... maybe it should be for this type of music.



album:

Jackson & His Computer Band - Smash



so i guess this is considered electronica, but honestly nowadays, what isnt?

wave of the future? maybe.... maybe not.... total disregard for musical structure? definately.. this album is rhythmicaly innacurate; but in a creative way. find me two measures in the whole album that are identical and ill give you a hundred bucks.

its something i definately haven't heard before, and i thought ive heard everything from A to Z. jackson messes with volume controls switching them up in the middle of a song, rotating them... you'll be experiencing some light sounds, and then all of a sudden a wave of full deep bass rush through your stereo or headphones, left to right, then dissapears.

this music is probably best listened to through headphones.

to make a metaphor out of his work, it feels as though this artist took paintbrushes and paints of everystyle of music ever invented, and just splattered them all over the canvas, and somehow made sense out of it.

this album takes you on a journey, but almost with a storyline like through a film.... but at most times, the storyline doesnt follow. its just interactions of rhythm and instruments guided by a magic wand.

however its not just random nonsense, the artist here was definately trying to communicate something, just not in our familiar 4/4 dialect.

can you still groove to it? well, you're definately not going to be getting your freak on with any ladies, unless theyre from another planet and speak the right language... but at times throughout the album i was bumpin my head.... he throws in some disco feel here and there, and some tracks feel like im marching... so there is rhythm, its just abstract and hard to filter.

if i had to color this album, it would be blue.

if i gave it a mood? well its definately not your common, sad gloomy, or happy joyfulness that most albums express.. its hard to find an emotion to fit this album.

is it something you've never heard before? yes.... will you like it? i dont know, probably not. but if you're that one weirdo like me... you may. i just dont know if the music world is ready for this album yet. honestly i dont think i am... but i know its something special... so ill put it on the shelf and take it down and give it another shot on april 18th, 2030.

you probably have no idea what this album is all about after reading this, but if youre interested, go find it somewhere."