The Present Tense – 9th March 2025

To understand the past
That can’t be changed
That’s a freedom
That has been arranged

Forgotten liberation
That always made sense
The past sensation
Brought to the present tense

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Charlie Zero The Poet Music picks & Reviews #14 and my quick thoughts:

The Backseat Lovers – Very pretty tunes, mathy and twinkly in places. How does this style get classified these days? It goes from Ed Sheeran and Coldplay softness to more upbeat Math Rock Times style bands. I think this style is kinda popular, or so it seems to me. I guess I come across it often in my musical searching. One thing I really don’t like about this style, though, is the super-clean production. It’s very sterile. Overall, it’s OK, but it’s no Tubelord or the better parts of Johnny Foreigner.

King Geedorah – I have no connection to hip-hop, really, and this won’t convince me either. Weirdly, the ‘beats’ or ‘samples’ are pretty interesting,g and the ‘rap’ detracts from the song for me. Makes me think that I’m listening to the radio in Grand Theft Auto.

Los Bitchos – This is cool. I went through a strong phase of listening to Eastern and Eastern-influenced music, thanks to Secret Chiefs 3. I still dig it, and this is fine and all, but it’s not going to set the world on fire. The reggae and surfy tracks don’t really grab me as much. I’ll give this another go in the future.

Blowfly – Already familiar and I like the juxtaposition of the wild, fun funk and the over-the-top gross lyrics. It’s like euphemism-free Funkadelic.

Cuco – big nope. I don’t know who or how anyone listens to this type of music. It’s nothing music.