HAPPY FARM - Happy Farm CS
Expect this clarification included any time I have the release in hand: no fucking lyrics sheet. That's sort of expect at this point, but jesus fucking christ.
Independent of that, I've gone back and forth trying to figure out how much I enjoy this or whether I did at all period. Whatever hesitation I felt in giving a full-throated endorsement dissipated after about 30 listens: I have decided that you and I both belong on the Arizona HAPPY FARM.
This art is fucking awesome. It looks like something you would have only discovered 15 years after its original release during the blogcore era of the late aughts/early teens. If I saw this in the racks at any age, I would have stopped looking. Journey over, tinnitus imminent. Good job, Joseph the artist, it's a shame no one asked you to lay out a lyric sheet.
As for the band itself, which does not include Joseph, you also did a good job! I always love when the drummer throws in a fill at every possible opportunity, I always love when the feedback shrieks and howls, and I always love when a band throws in a little tasteful palm muting whether or not it's congruent with the behavior of one's peers. I've always judged vocalists most harshly, but HF's clears, sacrificing themself over the course of 7 tracks and sending the recordings back in time to haunt the tape like a fucking ghoul. The delivery sounds like the corners of your mouth pulling away from the center of your face and every vein in your neck one second from bursting.
What thoughts and ideas I can make out seem earnest and uncompromising. It's a shame that there's no lyrics sheet I can use to confirm this, because I believe most of us would receive no small benefit by seeing ourselves reflected in the words of a band who champions the "survival of few against the apathy of most."
End diatribe.
Listen loud, and often, here: https://happyfarmaz.bandcamp.com/album/happy-farm
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