Justin Bieber - My World 2.0 [B - Mainstream]

JUSTIN BIEBER - MY WORLDS! LOLZ!?

I don't really care how Justin Bieber became famous...  I really just want to say a few things.

I can understand why a lot of people just kind of blindly hate on him, he is surrounded by tons of people that are holding him up on his pedestal and keeping him purty and helping him sell his millions of records and be the object of desire to countless teenage girls.  Well yes, the general thought of this really makes me sick so I'm going to TRY to listen to this record with no bias and give a general insight to what is going on with this kid.

Ok, well he sounds like a teenage girl on most of the songs, well that is cool I guess.  The production on the songs is obviously top of the line hip-hop.  It's pretty sounding.  Not much more I can really say.  What can you expect?  This is POP music.  Everything is streamlined, tuned to the perfect pitches and the music is quantized to a fucking point.

I feel kind of sick now, I'm trying really hard not to be a negative son of a bitch but damn, I'm just not sure about this.  Ok, well he has some abilities?  Umm...  He can sing alright I guess.

This is a terrible review.

Ugh.

My world?  s?  Justin is clearly delusional, but it's all ok.

Some of the songs make me think of the Pokemon first movie soundtrack.  YaY!

I give his latest release a 2.5/5

Now that seems fair?  Right?

Adebisi Shank - "This is the Second Album of a band called Adebisi Shank" [A-Underground]

My ears are happy and confused!

With a relentless onslaught of high octane bass guitar, pounding drums, random electronic noise bouncing left to right, some talk/wah/vocoder sounds and a guitar that sounds like it was passed down from the gods themselves,.  Adebisi Shank has put out a record that kept me guessing the entire listen.

Not being familiar with this band at all, I was immediately thrown back in my chair when the first song "International Dreamboat" started.  Everything is pushed to the front, IN YOUR FACE experimental rock and roll and it doesn't lose a beat the entire record.  It does mellow out a bit later on actually...  as I was looking at at the track listing I saw "(-_-)" as one of the song titles and I uttered quite a chuckle.  By the time that you get to the song your face has been totally melted, you get a nice little slower jam with a lot of what sounds like electronic drum patches and some random sounds that just sound goofy.

As the album continues on, it gets weirder and weirder... but not a bad weird...  There are some really awesome mallet? sounds and the guitar has some wicked riffs and delays and all kinds of other stuff going on.  Damn son, this guy must have a buttload of pedals and from a picture of his pedalboard, this is confirmed!  This is definitely a band I would love to see perform live and see them pump out these insane sounds.

With all of the mix of experimental rock, funk, and electronica, mind blowing tempo changes and start/stops...  This album rocks very hard...  even though it isn't really my cup of tea...  But I'll keep this band in my collection for road trips.  You should really go check this out right away... and you can listen for free at this site:

http://adebisishank.bandcamp.com/

I give this record a 4.5/5

Nothing bad about this band or this album, now go check it out!

Here's a dumb video version:

Here is a good video of them live!:

Tomorrow's review will be:

My World 2.0 - by Justin Bieber

I'm just kidding! (or am I?! you guys gotta give me suggestions!)

If you have any suggestions for an underground band or artist that has a record released in the last year (Starting with the letter B!  please leave a comment here or send me an e-mail with a bandcamp link or any way I can check the album out!  If not I will pick the record myself.  Thank you very much!