| Scumbag Philosopher / It Means Nothing So It Means Nothing |
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| Album: | It Means Nothing So It Means Nothing | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Scumbag Philosopher | Added: | Jun 2011 | |
| Label: | Words on Music | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2012-01-22 | Pull Date: | 2012-03-25 |
| Week Ending: | Mar 25 | Mar 18 | Mar 4 | Feb 26 | Feb 12 | Jan 29 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 26, 2013: | Music Casserole Sunshine Corporation | 4. | Mar 17, 2012: | Feral Pop Frenzy I Like Sums | |
| 2. | Dec 29, 2012: | Hangtime God Is Dead So I Listen To Radiohead | 5. | Mar 14, 2012: | meow God Is Dead So I Listen To Radiohead | |
| 3. | Mar 24, 2012: | Feral Pop Frenzy Social Networking Site | 6. | Mar 03, 2012: | Feral Pop Frenzy Social Networking Site |
| Album Review |
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| D. Cannibal Reviewed 2012-01-09 | ||
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British post-punk with jangly, downtrodden dissonance and a dry sense of humor. Generally mid-paced and dark—lumbering basslines and off-kilter guitar chords, alternating m/f vox. Strangely pleasant to listen to while being deliberately the opposite of “catchy.” I can imagine these chaps being lonely teenagers who are into The Raincoats and existentialism. RIYL: Mekons, Wire, The Fall, reading Sartre and Foucault on top of a double-decker bus FCCs on 3 My picks: 2, 6 (“God Is Dead So I Listen to Radiohead”—play this if you know what you can play on college radio vs. what you can listen to at home) and 8 1. Upbeat but also dark, as post-punk can often be, bits of catchy crooning lady vox. Critique of the education system. 2. Awesome nostalgic-sounding song, cheerful despite an abundance of minor chords, about how math is cool. Makes me wish I didn’t suck at math. 3. Steady marching beat, lilting melodies swirling around. FCC “arsewipe” 4. Incessant beat, harmonic-minor riffs, warbling guitar melodies explore the upper register 5. Plodding, insistent one-two groove and whiny guitar, might get you dancing if you are a depressed British teenager on codeine 6. YES! Sweet, shrill riff. Rumbling, rocking, energetic drumming that is heavy on the toms; telling all the mainstream douchebags where to shove it 7. Droll, deadpan, mostly spoken lyrics and a jarring, angular chord progression. Crass goes to grad school. 8. Awkward, frantic strumming guitars, hectic rhythms tumbling all over the place; twin vocals rambling totally independent of each other. 9. Bouncy, jostling rhythm and some vaguely indie, maybe even happy major-key guitar melodies. The dude delivers his vocals matter-of-factly while the lady is as sweet and melodious as ever. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Tickbox Exercise | 5. | Scumbag Philsopher | |||
| 2. | I Like Sums | 6. | God Is Dead So I Listen To Radiohead | |||
| 3. | Your Heroes At Home | 7. | Sunshine Corporation | |||
| 4. | Isolation | 8. | Social Networking Site | |||
| 9. | On The Shortwave | |||||