All right, if you haven’t gone through the tiresome process of, you know, clicking like once or twice to download the new Girl Talk album, Feed The Animals , here’s another taster:
IM(never)HO, Gregg Gillis’ smash-n-grab aesthetic works best when he actually stumbles on an idea that makes you cock your head and say “oh CRAP, if this amalgam was to ride out for an entire song I would not only lose my shit but re-find my shit simply to lose it again”. There are a jillion great ideas on Feed The Animals, and as such it’s 100% better than Night Ripper (see: Kevin Barnes smashing into the guitar lick from “Kiss”, MIA’s hootin’-n-hollerin’ against The CRANFUCKINBERRIES), but, for my money (I didn’t pay), the best idea on the whole shebang is pitting NIN against “Since You’ve Been Gone”.
Girl Talk is absolutely the Polyvore of music. That’s not a bad thing.
Brilliant. I had actually never heard of Girl Talk. Thanks for the introduction. I’m usually not a huge mash-ups person, but this album was so much fun to listen to… and again… and again.