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:
Girl Talk: Here’s The Thing
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.
I’d be a liar if I said “ZOMG I’VE BEEN WAITING MONTHS FOR THIS” –I actually woke up this morning and saw a few updates about it, downloaded it, and realized how much I’ve missed the antics Greg Gillis throws down on record. I’m about 3/4 of the way through the first listen (and 3 cups in of coffee from my wonderful new french press) and thought it would be wrong for me NOT to post about it.
So here it is! Girl Talk brings the heat again, same old antics -hip-hop/top40 tracks mashed up with classic rock, 90s, 80s, and just about anything else you can put on vinyl- and the same entertaining, smile-inducing results. And the best part? Its available free and/or cheaply at your own discretion. $0 gets you 320kbps MP3s, $5 gets you high quality FLAC files, and $10 gets you a physical copy of the cd.
Need more convincing? Well here’s a sampling of one of the tracks that totally caught my attention. 3:00 and on is by far the best part, IMO.
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Girl Talk - Let Me See You
LINKS: Girl Talk MySpace | illegalart.net
Its all available via illegalart.net, so get your early morning mash-up/mix cd on!
Its on once again.
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