>>31027837Review: The Jingle Bellies Christmas Album
Challenging synth work based on field recordings of live animals... an initially repulsive sonic landscape, with hidden melodies that reveal themselves clearly upon a closer listen. This is an album that forces the listener to pay attention, in a genre typically reserved for background music. The theme of "nature as music" intertwines with an intentionally crass cascade of ordinarily insipid holiday tunes to create a uniquely compelling critical statement about Western society's overtly materialistic views of companionship, love, and shared values. Perhaps most importantly, the Jingle Bellies Christmas Album is a quintessentially artistic endeavor, combining the old and familiar in ways that are off-putting, sometimes confusing, and above all, fresh and new.
9/10 BNM