I’m going to Coachella in the US (Indio, near Palm Springs – desert! 40 degrees! I am going to die!) in April, as mentioned on the podcast…so as Coachella approaches I’ve been checking out the lineup – especially the acts I don’t know. I’ll be dropping some of the ones I like on here and on hopefully a podcast soon.
First up is the strange and wonderfully named Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (OFWGKTA) – with similarities to the Witch House scene this LA hiphop group/collective does ‘horrorcore’ rap but also some Pharrell-style psychedelic rap noodlings like this from ‘The Jet Age Of Tomorrow’ (like Animal Collective or WuTang they all have their own aliases and groups).
Love that album! I prefer it to their more outre stuff (raping neighbours? Eh? And of course the faggot word makes a massive comeback…(grr) but it’s hard to take it seriously as it’s all done in a cartoon surreal style like some Freddie’s Wolf Nightmare 13th – stop me before I go all Humanities Thesis but I think they as much parody that gangstah rap stance as much as celebrate it …and yes they just as much rap about going to the Super Market on a surreal slacker trip…) – if you still think the likes of Tyler is serious then check out the Pitchfork article about them or the video for French. Tongue in cheek, or punk style shenanigans – or at least far more complex than first seems.
And here is their track Sandwiches on Jimmy Fallon in the States and a very weird performance.
You can download all their albums at their blog – which of course is Tumblr as all the cool kids have nowadays, it’s the Reassuring Mark of Random…
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