The Counterforce - HAPPY FARM2026-05-12T13:53:32.000-04:00https://the-counterforce.org/tag/happy-farm/The Counterforce - HAPPY FARMHAPPY FARM - Happy Farm CS2026-05-12T13:53:32.000-04:002026-05-12T13:53:32.000-04:00https://the-counterforce.org /happy-farm-happy-farm/<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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." </p><p>End diatribe.</p><p><em>Listen loud, and often, here: </em><a href="https://happyfarmaz.bandcamp.com/album/happy-farm"><em>https://happyfarmaz.bandcamp.com/album/happy-farm</em></a></p><figure class="kg-card kg-bookmark-card"><a class="kg-bookmark-container" href="https://happyfarmaz.bandcamp.com/album/happy-farm"><div class="kg-bookmark-content"><div class="kg-bookmark-title">Happy Farm, by Happy Farm</div><div class="kg-bookmark-description">7 track album</div><div class="kg-bookmark-metadata"><img class="kg-bookmark-icon" src="https://ghost.the-counterforce.org/content/images/icon/a0710227651_3.jpg" alt="" /><span class="kg-bookmark-author">Happy Farm</span><span class="kg-bookmark-publisher">B</span></div></div><div class="kg-bookmark-thumbnail"><img src="https://ghost.the-counterforce.org/content/images/thumbnail/a0710227651_5.jpg" alt="" onerror="this.style.display = 'none'" /></div></a></figure>
<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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." </p><p>End diatribe.</p><p><em>Listen loud, and often, here: </em><a href="https://happyfarmaz.bandcamp.com/album/happy-farm"><em>https://happyfarmaz.bandcamp.com/album/happy-farm</em></a></p><figure class="kg-card kg-bookmark-card"><a class="kg-bookmark-container" href="https://happyfarmaz.bandcamp.com/album/happy-farm"><div class="kg-bookmark-content"><div class="kg-bookmark-title">Happy Farm, by Happy Farm</div><div class="kg-bookmark-description">7 track album</div><div class="kg-bookmark-metadata"><img class="kg-bookmark-icon" src="https://ghost.the-counterforce.org/content/images/icon/a0710227651_3.jpg" alt="" /><span class="kg-bookmark-author">Happy Farm</span><span class="kg-bookmark-publisher">B</span></div></div><div class="kg-bookmark-thumbnail"><img src="https://ghost.the-counterforce.org/content/images/thumbnail/a0710227651_5.jpg" alt="" onerror="this.style.display = 'none'" /></div></a></figure>