I mentioned this in the Adult Swim thread but in case you didn't know, he also voices the title role in Tigtone, which is a farcical spin on fantasy/adventure media (most notably the logic and overall communication style of RPGs) and is frequently very funny. Nils Frykdahl's voice is fucking brilliant and I think the way he adapts it for this record to be less focused on the booming baritone theatricals and more on the rasping venom of a metal style (albeit more eclectic and fucking weird) is excellent. Yeah it took me ages to get around to checking it out, but listening to it recently, I agree with you.
#Sleepytime gorilla museum free
Quote from: Dirty Boy on February 07, 2022, 02:27:52 PMthe Free Salamander Exhibit record, which scales back on the demented conceptual avant-prog somewhat and has more of a song based pure metal sound (but is no less jaw dropping at moments). You get sucked into the story and you can't take your eyes off it.
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Everything from their weird lore to the outfits to their music is a perfectly conceived project. A bunch of their instruments are handmade by the band and they effectively create an all-encompassing disconcerting atmosphere with their racket. Whether their music is creeping down a dark and dusty hallway or pummelling the living shite out of you, it is almost always very unsettling and nasty, and it sounds fucking amazing. They're most certainly an avant-garde group but you could cosy that term up nicely alongside art rock and metal for sure. When you're a bairn there's a lot of stuff you're likely to hear that makes you think "Wow, I had no idea music like this existed." SGM fall on the extreme end of that scale to the point where some 15 years later I still find myself consistently astonished by the sounds they produced. I remember a friend getting me into them when I was young and impressionable.
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How seriously you choose to take this all depends on how much you're willing to become invested in the band's music, which is astonishingly good. The name itself apparently comes from a poem called "Of the Future Hides the Past," written by Museum members Lala Rolo and Ikk Ygg. The following day, the museum was closed (hence the name of the first album). The exhibit consisted of a fire which caused widespread chaos and confusion. The "museum" opened on J(the same day as the band's first concert, 83 years later). The group owned and operated what they called a "museum of the future" which was "anti-artifact, non-historical and closed." So basically, those who liked Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's previous albums will love In Glorious Times, which may well be the band's most diverse and accomplished set so far, but those who prefer their bands to sound at all musically consistent will likely be annoyed.Quote from: WikipediaAccording to the extensive liner notes for Grand Opening and Closing, the name "Sleepytime Gorilla Museum" comes from a small group of Dadaists, Futurists, and artists named the Sleepytime Gorilla Press. That head-snapping eclecticism is the band's stock in trade, alongside the King Crimson-like blend of metallic aggression, artsy dissonance and flashy chops that's the throughline for all these disparate styles. For example, the song directly following the aforementioned slab of death metal is the slightly pompous "Puppet Show," with passages that come close to actually quoting from familiar parts of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, and straight after that, "Formicary" is almost a pop song and "Angle of Repose," sung by violinist Carla Kihlstedt, sounds like it could be an outtake from Björk's Volta. The Oakland quintet's fourth studio album maintains all the oddball humor, technical complexity, jarring dissonance and mindbending dynamic shifts of their previous albums, not to mention their proud inability to sound like the same band from one song to the next.
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In Glorious Times' second song, "Helpless Corpses Enactment," is either straight-ahead death metal, complete with Cookie Monster growls, or an utterly straight-faced parody of same the fact that it's well-nigh impossible to tell one way or the other pretty much sums up Sleepytime Gorilla Museum.