Taking me back to the days when music was more laid back and chill, Stardeath and White Dwarfs offers an alternative to current songs over played on the radio with their album “The Birth.” With more talent and experience, this group could possibly be the next Pink Floyd.
Even though they have a similar sound to Pink Floyd, this album is more psychedelic — the first two songs especially channel that vibe.
The beginning of the song “The Birth” is nice and slow.
The beat and rhythm started to make me think I might be into this band, but that thought was crushed about a quarter of the way through the song, when an odd instrumental strikes out of nowhere.
I honestly thought something bad was happening to the CD to cause a noise that terrible.
Suffice to say, it was not a pleasant sound.
The song proceeded to worsen when halfway through, a baby began crying. Hearing a crying child while listening to a song is one thing, but having an actual baby crying on a song is over the top.
Bottom Line: If it’s something I don’t want to hear as background noise in my personal life, there is no way I want to hear it on a song. Granted, the song is about birth, but that doesn’t make the unwelcome wailing OK.
If you didn’t get enough of the laid-back music, “Those Who Are From The Sun Return To The Sun” is entirely instrumental. While this song shows the strengths of the musicians’ instrumentals, I feel their talent would be better appreciated by someone who has an interest in this music.
I’m not denying they have talent, but as talented as anyone might be, I’m not interested in hearing it if it’s something I don’t like.
When I read the back cover and saw “Smoking Pot Makes Me Not Want To Kill Myself,” I had a rough idea in my head as to what the song was going to sound like.
The words are drawn out and the instruments are slow and tend to drag on, lacking quality and clarity.
The most repeated lyrics were “We’re not wasting each other’s time.” That line isn’t bad, but when it’s put together with other lines of the song, it doesn’t make sense.
It’s easy for me to picture the band sitting around, engaging in the activity the song title suggests and throwing around song ideas, as the song doesn’t seem to be one that had a whole lot more thought than that behind it.
It wouldn’t come as a surprise to me if that’s how this song was actually created in a social atmosphere talking about the trials and tribulations of a breakup, as portions of the song suggests.
Overall, this album gives off a 1970s vibe, and while I can appreciate music from that time and the effort behind the sound they are after, I’m just not digging it.