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Mysterious Waters aren't bad, but their depressing surf-pop can get pretty irritating after a couple listens. From last year's debut album of theirs comes lyrics like "go surfin' in the sun and have some fun, while your best friend's mom aims at you with her gun." Seriously.

Their new single, "Bad Signal" (b/w "Archenematic Decisionmaking Techniques") is different than Mysterious Waters The Full Length Album Of All Time. It's still depressing, but not upbeat anymore. It's sludge. With depressing lyrics. Oh well. At least there's some awesome drumming.

acm: 'spacefreak' sampler by mindcore

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Mindcore is one of the bands that is the hardest to listen to, for fans of any genre. Their music is often ancient operating system sounds in chord progressions along with white noise, where the vocals are synthesized spoken word about various technical sci-fi concepts incomprehensible by mortal minds. Spacefreak will be their fourteenth LP since their self-titled debut in 1985.
It is a concept album about an alien that is left out and is driven crazy.
'Spacefreak' Sampler takes the best songs from Spacefreak and puts them in a new order that compliments the original order by forming a completely different story about someone trapped in a prison cell for no reason at all. Mindcore hopes that people will appreciate Spacefreak more than their previous albums, but I think that it's sales will not surpass the platinum certified Marching Past Now from 1998.

acm: forest fire by hear

This is the first Album Cover Mockup (ACM). ACM is a project to cure my boredness. (none of these bands or songs or etc. really exist and all similarities are coincidental.

Forest Fire is Hear's third album, after their multi-platinum debut Equals Bracket and their commercial flop, Lack of Respect. It strays from their previous pop-punk records, being more depressing, dark, and noisy. It begins with the quiet song "A New Control" which features a beautiful theremin composition, a first for the band. It fades into the pure rock of "14 of 87". The style of this track is similar to Hear's previous record except for the distortion, screaming, and lyrics about death. It ends mid-line and switches to the song "Misery of You", which is white noise backed with distorted banjo. Layered over top of it is dozens of voices whispering. At the end, a robot utters one word, "burning". "Shine" begins an obvious single, but it gets stranger and stranger and then, six minutes into it, all that you can hear for the remaining two minutes is crackling flames. "Forest Fire" is the first single, most likely because it sounds like the pop-punk of the first album that was so successful. Yet it was different. The lyrics in "Forest Fire" are about people burning a forest and the feelings of the inhabitants of the forest afterwards. It is a sad song, but the album as a cohesive entity is much more depressing. "Ripping You Off" is a joke. It is three full minutes of cackling, proving that the band just ripped you off. Track 7, "The Media", is similar in style to "14 of 87", but it's about the negative effects of the media. "Untitled" is a metaphorical song about lossy media compression. Its hidden meaning is that we are losing a lot by moving into big cities. "Spirits of the Dark" is the epic of the album, with a 27 minute length. It is quiet and slow for many minutes, fading in to an instrumental part where the whole band sings about the end of the world in harmony. Then an orchestra and two guitars suddenly start playing, fusing punk and orchestral music in a perfect balance of both. And as suddenly as it began, it ends.