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    burstgrimdren

    burstgrimdren

    (2005)

    Reviewed by Amanda Walker

    Apple Music
    Label independentThe Phantom Tollbooth2005
    folk rocklo-fipsychedelic rock

    Word-for-word storytellers of Biblical proportion, the lyrics are extremely "preachy," and overbearing; making the listener feel like they're choking down an unwanted religion. Burstgrimdren has an extremely retro-1960's hippie sound, and would have definitely been a played band at the "Christian Woodstock" had one ever really existed then. The vocals sound like the singers are drunk or at least high, and the instrumentalists can't keep a straight beat, which may be the essence of what they want their sound to emulate. This album blares a really bad home production with sounds of dogs barking in the background, babies crying, people talking, and airplanes in the background, and not intentional sound effects.

    Essentially: Hippies gone musically wild in a really bad way.

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