Boygenius - The Record

Is The Record by Boygenius satire? Yes, deliciously and nutritiously so. It's also a gorgeous Indie Alt-tronic Mope-Folk album in its own right, but the meta-sarcastic concept is pure delight in a way that even an ironically obsequious album like Badflower's This Is How The World Ends can't capture. It's like if the lyric "hey there Delilah" were a real person you absolutely didn't want to hang out with. 

"Women in Rock" is not a genre no matter how often you try to mansplain it that way, women making Rock that mocks the cultural grooming of the (invariably male) tortured artist as oracle is absolutely delightful. 

On one hand we have a supergroup of Indie Rock icons eschewing the inherently imaginary competitiveness so often forced upon them by simply not have any adult men involved in the process, on the other hand we have them faithfully embracing the ridiculousness of believing that expression itself is inherently meaningful. The upstreched hands, the black and white pulp-zine of a lyric book with its mocking but ultimately meaningless self-quotations, the electronic cacophony rumbling under everything, the permission to laugh at an awkward lyric, a stupid metaphor, a passive-aggressive cry for undeserved attention, The Record rewards your skepticism and applauds your grounded disbelief, not least in the hilarity of marketing the collaboration as a Hardcore Punk band. It begins with a 3-voice chorale ode to family ancestry, meanders through all the various ways you can ruin your own human relationships if you try hard enough, and ends with the cocaphonous locked-groove of raging at the old guard for no other reason than that's basically the only stereotypical proverbial mic drop there is in this kind of self-aggrandizing negative ego bath. 

I don't know about you, but it makes me wonder how Eddie Vedder's Earthling compares to David Bowie's Earthling. Save that for next time, i want to spend some more time with The Record by xboygeniusx. It's pretty darned awesome.