Curse of wooden tongues
Monday, June 22nd, 2009 by Flint
I am not much of a rap expert. This is not because I dislike the genre (in fact it’s quite a cool one) but because I’m a right picky bastard. This exceeds to other genres too, mind you, but rap to my ears seems to have the quality to offer stonkingly great tunes but not so often excellent albums. But every once in a blue moon when I actually grab myself and lift my arse off the chair I actually do some adventurous research into the genre I’m not that deep in with, and sometimes during those adventures there’s a full album that destroys my Forcefield of Pickiness.
Today, we are talking about Curse ov Dialect’s Wooden Tongues and quite frankly, I haven’t got the faintest idea how to describe it. Curse ov Dialect themselves hail from Australia, Wooden Tongues is their third album and Rate Your Music defines its genre as ‘abstract hip hop’. I prefer the genre tag ‘batshit insane’ or ‘Mighty Boosh in hip-hop form’. The most random plethora of samples pop up at the most random times and are rapped over by the most random voices. Each song has at least one part that sounds like it belongs to a completely different song. It’s absolutely daft. And it’s in fact pretty good.
I am not much of a rap expert. This is not because I dislike the genre (in fact it’s quite a cool one) but because I’m a right picky bastard. This exceeds to other genres too, mind you, but rap to my ears seems to have the quality to offer stonkingly great tunes but not so often excellent albums. But every once in a blue moon when I actually grab myself and lift my arse off the chair I actually do some adventurous research into the genre I’m not that deep in with, and sometimes during those adventures there’s a full album that destroys my Forcefield of Pickiness.
Today, we are talking about Curse ov Dialect’s Wooden Tongues and quite frankly, I haven’t got the faintest idea how to describe it. Curse ov Dialect themselves hail from Australia, Wooden Tongues is their third album and Rate Your Music defines its genre as ‘abstract hip hop’. I prefer the genre tag ‘batshit insane’ or ‘Mighty Boosh in hip-hop form’. The most random plethora of samples pop up at the most random times and are rapped over by the most random voices. Each song has at least one part that sounds like it belongs to a completely different song. It’s absolutely daft. And it’s in fact pretty good.