Review Summary: As offensive to the ears as its title is to obese Negroes.
Big Nig 2014 is an album by Frippertronics, and can only be summed up as one crab in a buckets attempt to pull you down to the darkness of his own life. It is entirely instrumental music that uses electronic sounds, that has a cool Pink Floyd kind of feel to it. The tracks are all very lackadaisical and make great background music, but are hard to give your undivided attention to without becoming somewhat bored. This may not be an album worth downloading, but it makes for an interesting look into the career of a sixteen year old giving a decent shot at making music. Eventually this may be looked back upon as Big Nig’s
A Saucerful of Secrets: it may not be the best album now, but may very well serve as a stepping stone into the progressive evolution of the sound of a bright young artist.
The main problem with the the tracks on
Big Nig 2014 are their cohesiveness. Certain sounds are very interesting, dark, and powerful, but the length of certain sounds and the combination of the sounds just isn't that catchy or enjoyable as a whole. This could be good music, but it needs some polishing. For example on the first track “Limbo”, the siren screech at the first minute or so of track is absolutely obnoxious, but the rest of the track features many enjoyable melodies.The second track “Violence” has a good idea, or a good atmosphere, but again that same siren sound is used and is annoying as can be. I had to virtually mute my computer to keep listening without hurting my ears. The other sounds used throughout the track mix in are pretty interesting, but that siren is too repetitive and annoying to tolerate. This was the only track I had to skip any portion of, which shows that while this album isn’t good, it isn’t bad either, just inconsistent and unpolished.
The real fun begins with the third track “Chopping Up the Remains". It's mysterious enough and (combined with the title of the track) dark enough to make up for the lack of 'catchiness'. It flows well into the next track “Eno”, the epic thirteen minute quintessential space-out song. This song makes excellent background music, it isn’t as overwhelming and muddled with sounds as the other tracks, and is actually enjoyable as a whole. This is the one track that is unquestionably worth downloading on the album.
The album (like this review) abruptly ends on a bad note with the bad conclusion track “Aural Oral Payne”. I wasn’t sure if my headphones were blowing out or if this was the actual track. It simply doesn’t add a sense of cohesiveness or closure to the album, and is not musically enjoyable. If I had made this album myself, I would’ve left this track off entirely and ended on a more positive note (the track “Eno”). Yet I did not make this album, and admittedly cannot fathom the reasons for putting any of these sounds, melodies or songs where they are. Such is the subjective beauty of music. Perhaps you will like this album, I don’t really listen to any other music like this, so if you are into lackadaisical electronic music, definitely give this a shot. It’s not bad, unlike the dirty mouth of Frippertronics.
