PainMusique is an artist from Boston who recently released I Often Wonder What People Will Say at My Funeral. The artist mentions that the album was all created in Garageband and says: “In my bedroom at night usually at 1-4am. I usually played my bass in an amp recorded directly through the phone and then layered it through different apps on my recording software to give it some compression and sound natural with the beat.”
The music is instrumental and on his Bandcamp page PainMusique mentions artists like The Avalanches, Mr Oizo, Aphex Twin and Osamu Sato as influences. I could hear a lot of those influences in the music. For instance, “Fluff” felt Aphex Twin inspired while “Heavy News' ' certainly seems to have a more dance oriented approach similar to The Avalanches. “Just Learned What a Crip Walk Is” sounds closer to Massive Attack. The album goes through different beats and styles but for the most part it felt moody, dark and cerebral. “After Bashing My Co-Pilots Head In” sounds like it could be a B-side for Boards of Canada which I say as a huge compliment. One of the highlights was “Houses in Atlanta” which has a wicked groove. I started making music in the mid ’90s and this type of music was very hard to make back then. The technology wasn’t there yet and the software wasn’t available along with countless loops you can now buy online. It’s a good and bad thing in my opinion. Artists really have to push themselves in new sonic territory perhaps like Tim Hecker and Fennesz often do. This album doesn't go into new territory but does a great job embracing a spectrum of like-minded genres and styles. The songs here are well crafted and if this came out thirty years ago might become an instant classic. And I think fans of artists like Prefuse 73, Massive Attack, Authucre and other like- minded bands will appreciate this.
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