So these guys are experimental noise artists from the New York conceptual art/post-future scene. Each of them has a bunch of aliases (Rene Hell, Die Reihe), and they've both spent more than 20 years making really, really difficult-to-listen-to noise music. Their collaborative performance project—an overwhelmingly conceptual, hyper-self-aware exploration of the form, limitations, and meaning of art itself—gradually evolved until it ended up looking a lot like a band.The best part? It's all pop. Guitar-driven '90s pop pastiche packed with internet samples that somehow sounds like grunge-hop. All of that sits alongside absolutely heartbreaking lyrics about spending 20 years making music and feeling like they have nothing to show for it, the frustration of watching the contemporary art scene they came out of collapse, and the uncertainty of whether the music is even good—or what could really be considered "good music" in the first place.I don't even know whether I can recommend it or not (Think Differently is one of my two favorite albums of 2024), but if any of that sounds interesting to you, you should give them a shot.
Shameless self bump also Boiler Room:https://youtu.be/MTYSY_TQEgE
If I was ever reduced to this, I would stop doing music altogether
>>130884361I think that's kind of the point. The album is obsessed with the fear that two decades of making art might amount to nothing. Their work is far more challenging and difficult than it might appear at first glance and it's conceptually broad but it ultimately asks itself if art is really worth it (the answer's yes)
Shameless self bump.I'm off to sleep.If anyone at all saw this and gave them an honest try, my work here is done. They're fantastic btw.
