Robocop/Detroit - Dead Language/Foreign Bodies

Today we go for Grind. I'd repeat the full conversation, but it's mostly unintelligible gargling and agonized screaming, not unlike tonight's album. That's not completely fair, you can actually understand the majority of words on this album. Be warned, it does not sound nearly as pretty as last night's Gunpowder Gray.

A really fun thing about Grindcore is the microsong, a kind of uber-minimalist approach to encapsulating a complete idea and its execution using a much energy and as little actual musical material as possible. Napalm Death still holds the record with the single grunt that is You Suffer, but tonight's album has some really good attempts. It's the Robocop/Detroit Split "Dead Language, Foreign Bodies," and it will peel the paint off your brain walls.

A lot of people don't like the more extreme side of metal, but as i keep pointing out, i'm not a lot of people on the outside. Granted, a lot of the people on my inside hate this, but i am Bottle, hear me sit quietly and enjoy this deluge of distortion, screaming, and intellectual experimentation.

Honest to goodness, the Robocop side struck me as somehow sarcastic, so i had to go see for myself. Here is the full description from their bandcamp page:

"This was written in the context of what we saw as a world spinning out of control. Paranoia, conspiracy theories, the structure of media, information control, etc. I was pretty keen on incorporating this into our imagery/lyrics without extensive commentary, The assumption was that people listening to this would let that wash over them, and get a sense of what was bubbling up from below the surface in our culture. This all reads very differently, now that far-right ideological extremism has become part of mainstream culture. The things we were "portraying" on this album should not be perceived as an endorsement of those ideas. I really wanted to give these things air to warn people about where things were going, it's hard to get people to remember how naive the majority of the population was before this album. This was before the capital insurrection, before Trump, before gamergate, before Snowden, etc. It was written as a small band in northern Maine. I have tried to clarify this whenever possible, but it's there's no way to preserve this in the environment in which it was formed.

I wrote about and sampled the things I did, because I wanted to make music to show what it was like in the deepest recesses of the net. Now that this monster has crawled out it's hole, I want to make it clear: none of these songs was written from my perspective. In fact, none of the Robocop songs were ever written from my perspective. I thought of these more as experimental films, or some of the more extreme J.G. Ballard novels. I wanted our music to be a sort of "atrocity exhibition" where the worst parts of our culture could be grafted together. The fact that every topic covered here had essentially been grist for the mill in the genre's we were invested in, fit into the equation as well.

Regardless, I want to be completely clear: I wrote the lyrics as someone invested in far-left labor politics, (non-exclusionary) feminism, anti-racism, and LGBTQ rights. My commitment was/is more expansive than that, but I want to make that clear, because, even I feel repulsed by some of what's included. It was meant to repulse, do not read anything else into it.

Nazi Punks Fuck Off.

- RP"

Cool dudes. Yep, this is exactly what the real world sounds like if you listen with your face pressed up against it. To be clear, i absolutely love this albumstrocity of audiomalevolence, but you probably won't. It very much does sound awful on purpose. Two thumbs up.