C.J. Pizarro - Snow Crabs [IA002]
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- 0000-00-00 00:00:00
- Topics
- Avantgarde, Hip-Hop, Rap, Trip-Hop, Experimental, Electropop, Poptronica, Eclectic
There are two legitimate stances that one can take in the face of a world that is cruel, stupid, and absurd: the Lachrymose and the Laughing. C.J. Pizarro's Snow Crabs is a risible, boisterous, and endlessly inventive avant hip-pop album that shamelessly adopts the latter.
Pizarro's exuberance and creativity boil over into bizarre lyrics, lavishly haunting production, picaresque style-hopping, gorgeous melodicism, goofy characterization -- even the madman burbling of acapella orgasm. Despite its brevity, Snow Crabs somehow manages to bring everything from teen angst to world hunger to spiders to roadkill to futons within its erratic ambit, channeling the truck-driving ghosts of such distinguished personnel as Tom Waits, Eminem, Kleenex Girl Wonder, Soul Junk, Brak, Beck, and dozens of other uncategorizable auteurs who aren't even fetuses yet.
At one point in "Alpacas R Us," Angelseed, Pizarro's Waitsian alter ego, growls -- among other things (for e.g. "'This jersey is too small' is an unpopular saying among highschool gymnasts; that's a fucking fact" and "Buy a futon!," inter alia) -- that he has a lot to learn from positive hip hop. The truth is closer to the reverse: not just hip hop artists, but musicians of every stripe and genre who take themselves too seriously, have a lot to learn from C.J. Pizarro. That's a fucking fact.
Pizarro's exuberance and creativity boil over into bizarre lyrics, lavishly haunting production, picaresque style-hopping, gorgeous melodicism, goofy characterization -- even the madman burbling of acapella orgasm. Despite its brevity, Snow Crabs somehow manages to bring everything from teen angst to world hunger to spiders to roadkill to futons within its erratic ambit, channeling the truck-driving ghosts of such distinguished personnel as Tom Waits, Eminem, Kleenex Girl Wonder, Soul Junk, Brak, Beck, and dozens of other uncategorizable auteurs who aren't even fetuses yet.
At one point in "Alpacas R Us," Angelseed, Pizarro's Waitsian alter ego, growls -- among other things (for e.g. "'This jersey is too small' is an unpopular saying among highschool gymnasts; that's a fucking fact" and "Buy a futon!," inter alia) -- that he has a lot to learn from positive hip hop. The truth is closer to the reverse: not just hip hop artists, but musicians of every stripe and genre who take themselves too seriously, have a lot to learn from C.J. Pizarro. That's a fucking fact.
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Song Title | Versions | Compilations | Covers |
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Dark Black Semen | |||
Going To Die | |||
World of 3 | |||
Got Big Plans | |||
Back in High School | |||
Snow Crabs Convulse | |||
The Third World | |||
Cousin of Bambi | |||
Look! I'm an Angel! | |||
The Ass Goes | |||
Alpacas R Us | |||
Heaven and Milk |
- Addeddate
- 2004-04-08 16:51:47
- Boxid
- OL100020107
- Identifier
- ia002
- Run time
- 28:05
- Source
- imaginaryalbums.com
- Type
- sound
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Reviewer:
Soonikspeiss
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May 28, 2017
Subject: Humorous aspects being intertwined with hip-hop and electronica
Subject: Humorous aspects being intertwined with hip-hop and electronica
it happened quite recently when I discovered such a label as Imaginary Albums which in fact had been in action in the first half of the 00s. The roster of the imprint involves such artists as Corpus Callosum, The History and Civilization of the Great Black Swamp, Laura Palmer, Hubre, Procrustes, Blasting Trout Overbite, Cookie Jar, Santa Inferno, The Harvey Girls, Swain, Tiny Creatures (the artist also being known from the roster of the Israeli imprint Birdsong. Thanks to it I discovered Imaginary Albums), and C.J Pizarro. The two first tracks (Dark Black Semen, Going To Die) apparently mock the violent gangsta rap philosophy and culture gravitating towards sex, guns, and dope. Of course, the rest of the tracks (or at least the most of them) have been managed to focus on these themes but they abandon the apparent stereotypical approach though carrying on a tongue-in-cheek advance and involving black humour (for instance, at Look! I'm an Angel!). Frequently comedy aspects are intermingled with experimental pop elements. For instance, at Alpacas R Us the artist exploits repulsively desperate vowel effects and chants and a battle of sonic effects being counterpointed by sublime a cappella and soulful singing here and there, However, there are up some tracks which used to distance from rap/hip-hop music. For instance, the final track Heaven and Milk running in the vein of artsy indie pop by employing sliding sonic effects and twanging guitars and exuberant singing.
http://agier.blogspot.com.ee/2017/04/cj-pizarro-snow-crabs-2004.html
http://agier.blogspot.com.ee/2017/04/cj-pizarro-snow-crabs-2004.html
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