Review Summary: People are ugly.
I love this record. I love it and I feel like I shouldn’t. The vocals are awful, like someone spewing forth gravel, and the music, while being very rooted in bluegrass, is topsy-turvy and seemingly all over the place. This album has no composition, no organization, and that simply makes it so much better. It’s free-spirited and zany, and is perhaps the most human-sounding record I’ve ever come across. From the carefree, I-don’t-care-about-the-world's-shortcomings tone of “*** It”, and the self-realization that everyone will be ***ty at some point in their lives in “Misanthropic Drunken Loner”, this album simply sounds so damn natural. It’s like there was no hesitation when the pair decided to put their thoughts to paper. They just did it, got to the road, and went along with the flow. That’s another thing that’s so incredible about this. The couple seem to think in unison, and they truly mesh with each other very well. It’s like throughout the entire run time you’re listening to their love story as it’s happening. It’s beautiful, of course, as is love (or so it can be).
That being said, are there moments where things just don’t work? Of course there are. Even with the couple's carefree attitude in mind, sections like the opening scream off of “Call in the Coroner” can be quite jarring, and they initially feel inexcusable. However it soon became present to me that the flaws of this album are also its strengths. There are ideas that seem completely out of place, times where emotions takes the stage so excessively that they completely shove the structure of the music aside. That, however, is why this album works. It’s the most raw, honest stream of thoughts you will ever receive from another human being, and sometimes it’s ugly. Sometimes it’s jarring. Sometimes it’s not what you want to hear. And sometimes, it’s completely human.
I was told there's some grammatical mistakes and I decided to read through but i'm an illiterate twat.
