Satanicpornocultshop - Arkhaiomelisidonophunikheratos (2010)

Anyway, this is the hands down best album I've listened to in 2010. Arkhaiomelisidonophunikheratos honestly can only be described as miscellaneous sounds, melodies, whole songs and noise all thrown into a blender (relation to blender lid not intentional), throwing it together in a recording and serving the result on a full length album. Even the album cover is representative of this, as an unnatural mashup of various women, symbols, miscellaneous objects and hair, yet still holding the general form of a person, though distorted and definitely no longer fitting the standard definition of beauty. Much like Satanicpornocultshop's covers of the popular songs on the album.

And it works.

The opening track, "New Years' Snow", is still very much a beautiful ambient pop melody with feathery vocals and a sparse piano accompaniment, while the next track (R.I.P) Tide jumps straight into a relaxed, almost Caribbean resort feel with its guitar samples and sprinkles of odd sound samples throughout, as the same vocalist covers Missy Elliot's Get Your Freak On on top of the instrumentation. Satanicpornocultshop's propensity for taking popular hits of a range of different genres, such as the aforementioned Get Your Freak On (which also later reappears in the track Pinky), and covering them in such a way that though they are still easily recognizable, take on a life of their own within the album, and again work perfectly together, from My Bloody Valentine's shoegazey Feed Me with Your Kiss to Kaci's pop hit Paradise or even Francoise Hardy's 70s hit Comment Te Dire Adieu?. In addition to all this genre hopping, the album also has some genuine experimental as-far-away-from-pop-as-you-could-possibly-get moments, such as on 2 More Heads_Sprouted!, Custom Drum Destroyer and 9 Headed Monster, which are scattered throughout the album between the more accessible hits. Still, each track seems to flows seamlessly into the next, only tied together by Satanicpornocultshop's eccentric samples and electronic foundation, and yet they all work to form a complete and near perfect album as a whole.



Tracklist:

1. New Years' Snow
2. (R.I.P) Tide
3. Saddam Fed Bird While Jailed
4. 2 More Heads Sprouted!
5. Feed Me W) Ur Kiss
6. Glaneurs
7. Pinky
8. Custom Drum Destroyer
9. Left Handed Darling
10. 9 Headed Monster
11. Paradise
12. Kanariya
13. Nido
14. New Years' Snow (Reprise)
15. Comment Te Dire Adieu?

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