BruceBan$hee’s latest album is a chaotic experimental series, featuring a moody crackling atmosphere with all caps delivery, angsty performances, heavy distortions, and short runtimes but jet-fuelled bursts. The album is a genre-bending mix of alternative and punk rock with rap and some hints of electronica sprinkled in, the result being an atomic fission of energy and electricity.
Finger Food
The album’s entrée is ‘Finger Food’, a wild track with undulating basslines, cookie monster screeches, and guitars quivering with energy throughout!
WooHoo!
This track is a bit more menacing and pointed, with distorted vocals, punch, a soundscape giving the imagery of mosh pit scenes, and a bit more of an angular sound, as compared to some of the other songs on the album.
Dark Woods
Another adrenaline-spiked track is ‘Dark Woods’, retaining some of those angles, but taking on a more daring persona with energetic jolts against the backdrop of a crunchy soundscape.
Snow California
This track is more acidic, with a frothier texture mix in with some electronic infusions. The track takes it a bit slower, and features more bold melody lines.
FML (Blunts n Gold)
‘FML’ feels more like a fever dream, with the layers drifting apart and together in the soundscape, and the air has a more metallic timbre, driving the listener more into a hypnotic territory rather than unhinged. The brooding undercurrent highlights the more energetic frontline.
StrawBerry Blues
This track starts a lot slower and more foreboding than the others, but goes nuts, with chaotic elastic rhythms, with the tempo stretching and condensing to the whims of the band. The drumming patterns are also creatively interlaced within the arrangement. The electronic grunge energy is heavy on this track.
KIDS!
This song leans hard into the fun element with vibrant autotune, notes of nostalgia, and a playful vocal layering. We get hints of EDM and pop-leaning arrangements.
Without You
And as for the finale ‘Without You’, it’s a track that would send you spinning with its grainy atmospheric haze, while in the foreground, the sharpness of the autotune could easily cut through glass. And with “I’m nothing without you” as the last line, the album ends on a more tender admission.
As a whole, BruceBan$hee has managed to craft a varied set of textures layered together, from spiky and charred atmospheres to a more unhinged instrumentation. The album would definitely shake you up and have your heart racing!