STRAPPING YOUNG BUCKS – O

3″ CDr, https://innerdemonsrecords.bandcamp.com/

Where do you begin when there is no beginning, no ending and sometimes not even a middle part? We start with going through the interwebz and find out that behind Strapping Young Bucks is K-Herring 1, about whom we couldn’t find a lot either. It’s Daniel Roland from British Columbia, and his sounds are weird. The four tracks on his Bandcamp page are combined into a release on Inner Demons Records, and they snuggly fit on their favourite 3″ CDr format. And what connects the tracks is their general weirdness.

Daniel added a little text on his personal Bandcamp to explain what the tracks are(not) about. The opener, “Froggy Style”, emphasises the general weirdness: ‘Frogs need love. Well, maybe they need flies, but they need love too. Stop judging them because they’re slimy and gross.’ So yeah, for the visualisers amongst us, take that! Another explanation worth mentioning we find at “Pissed Off Pussies”. ‘Women are becoming more like men, and men are becoming more like animals.’ And even when I’m a bit sceptic about the difference between men and women (we’re all humanoids, after all), that second part is becoming too truthful these days.

Musically, it’s a fun release by someone who will not stick to expected patterns, sounds, song structures and obligatory guidelines. And that is what experimentation is all about. This one made me smile.