10 End of the World Hits is a studio album by Prince Rama's psychedelic dance duo consisting of Taraka's sister and Nimai Larson. Produced by Scott Colburn, this is a "retrospective requiem of all the pop albums ever made" in which Prince Rama revives the spirit of the ten fictitious musical acts who died during the apocalypse to do a blow: the Arab group Guns of Dubai, the British dance acting IMMORTALIFE, the mafia the Nu Fighters music group, the protest band Rage Peace, the group of Taohaus architects, the soundtrack of the Goloka bollywood duo, Black Elk Speaks, the Hyparxia virtual group, the dancerise duo The Metaphysixxx and the commercially successful Motel Memory group.
The doomsday Concept of the Top 10 Hits of the End of the World is inspired by the works of Chris Marker, Paul Laffoley, and Jean Baudrillard and continues Prince Rama's idea of ​​the present "age" gift in their past records, at where a period or moment becomes lost after being named "now age." The main theme of the album is based on real-life musical acts that "have" the spirits of earlier music groups and artists, such as Lady Gaga channeling Madonna and Creed channel Pearl Jam. Musically, the Top 10 Hits of the End of the World is influenced by pop music from several countries such as Arabic, French, Swedish and Cambodian territories. It also includes elements from several genres such as what the press release Paw Tracks described as "tribal goth," "rock motorcycle," and "ghost-modern glam."
Promoted with three pre-album-release singles ("So Destroyed," "Those Who Live For Love Will Live Forever," and "Welcome to the Now Age") and two music videos (for "So Destroyed" and "Those Who Live For Love Will Live Forever "), Top 10 Hits of the End of World was released by Paw Tracks label on November 6, 2012. Some professional music journalists polarized with Top 10 Hits from End of the World ; some reviewers feel that the album does not contain the elements promised by its concepts and press releases, and some critics have criticized the duo for abandoning the style and sound that define them on their previous recordings. However, the LP also garnered many positive responses from other critics, some calling it Prince Rama's best album while others praised the concept for how it benefits his music.
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Drafts
Taraka Larson explains in an interview about what inspires the Top 10 Hits of the End of World:
For some reason, I started really obsessed with figuring out what hit the # 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on various dates in the world that are predicted to end. I do not know exactly why. It's like a game to decode. Immediately, I began to see a frightening correlation between some doomsday and their # 1 hit accordingly. For example on Harold Camping's Rapture on May 21, 2011, the hit song is "Til the World Ends" by Britney Spears. I was really fascinated by how pop music became this vehicle for mass consciousness to encode mass destruction messages. It's perfect disguise. So I thought, wow if the world ends this year, what would be the hit single # 1? What would be "NOW That's What I Call Music" would a comp vote be out post-doomsday? I want to make the album.
Described by the Paw Tracks press release as "a retrospective requiem of all the pop albums ever made," Top 10 Hits of the End of World is a set of post-apocalyptic hits by the action of fictional music, a concept writer Lindsay MaHarry is described as a "meta-textual role play." In the LP, Prince Rama "channeled [s]" the ghosts of this action who were killed in the apocalypse. The main theme is the time period "owned" by the earlier or earlier times. Taraka Larson explains that the LP corresponds to "the present-dominated past, the past haunted by the future, [and] a future destroyed by today's nostalgia." Real examples of artists who "channeled" the spirits of action that came before include Lady Gaga channeling Madonna and Creed channel Pearl Jam.
Post-apocalyptic elements of the Top 10 Hits of the End of the World 's concept inspired by La JetÃÆ'Â © e (1962), a feature of science fiction by Chris Marker. Prince Rama praised the film for "making romantic amnesia again through a series of still images that create a post-apocalyptic environment." In making the LP, the group also read about the concepts of Hauntology, Jean Baudrillard's theory of history, and essays by visionary artist Paul Laffoley on "Thanaesthetics," "Zombie Aesthetics," and time travel. The use of fake band and duo stories takes photos of themselves as these groups compared to Amanda Farah's critics to the Strange Little Girls (2001) project by Tori Amos.
Like last Rama Prince Rama, the Top 10 Hits of the End of World follows the notion of "Now Age," in which a period or moment becomes lost once it is named "now ages." Taraka describes reinventing the Apocalypse as "illusive" as renewing the "present" because they "both exist in a moment suspended that connects the End to the Eternal." Regarding the idea of ​​LP from a combination of utopia and apocalypse, he explains that utopia is "No Place" based on the definition of the term Thomas More and that pop music involves ending humanity and "place" in order. to create a utopian viewpoint: "In his obsession with hi-fi, he seeks to root out all traces of the place, and creates an alternative reality in which all sounds are polished and isolated in endless paradise." In his obsession with the image he attempts to root out all traces aging and mortal imperfection and strive to create an iconic ideal, replicable, untouchable, immortal. "
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Composition
Top 10 Hits of the End of the World is a psychedelic indie drone rock album in the music style of a c86 tape compilation C86 (1986) using the body and composition structure of "Hindu Atmosphere," wrote Paul Lester from The Guardian. Like Prince Rama's previous albums, the Top 10 Hits of the End of the World follows the acid-induced clock band style that contains the tribal digital drum sound, what Stuart Stubbs describes as a "cyclic" structure, rototoms, eastern percussion, Casio style sounds, Sanskrit songs, analog synthesizers, and some reverb filters, echoes, and distortions.
In making the music of Top 10 Hits of the End of the World, Prince Rama is influenced by pop, pop punk and musical synthpop from various countries such as Arabian, French, Swedish and Cambodian territories. Since most of the Top 10 Hits of the End of World were recorded in Seattle, Prince Rama garnered influences from the works of American rock band Nirvana. The album also features new wave elements, a cosmic disco, grunge, what press releases are described as "goth tribes", "rock motorcycles", and "ghost-modern glam".
The cover art of Top 10 Hits of the End of World is done by Jo Cutri. This is a 1980s style cover that features the phrase "As Seen On TV" and uses Sega Genesis style typography. This artwork is ranked 23rd in the list of "The 25 Best Album Covers of 2012" by Complex magazine where they praise the "bad is good" aspect.
Release and promotion
"So Destroyed" is the main single from the Top 10 Hits of the End of World, premiering through Stereogum on August 10, 2012. Lachlan Kanoniuk writes mixed reviews of songs for magazines Australia Beat once released; He praised the group for reducing the "more irritating" aspect of their previous work but also finding the song "forgotten" as a whole. To make an official video on the song, Prince Rama held a "Destroyed Dance Contest," in which people sent a video about themselves dancing to the track. Participants received a "mixtape custom" by the duo, and the winner earned "special dancing shoes", a physical album signed by the group, and a chance to dance with live performances. The contest ends on October 1, 2012, The video was released on December 11, 2012 and received positive reviews from critic Amrit Singh who called it "exploration, not serious, spreading, and most importantly, very silly, which is a good omen for the sincerity that usually accompanies project concept. "
"Those Who Live For Love Will Live Forever" was released as the 2nd Top Hits of the End of the World on September 27, 2012. MOCAtv and Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art create low-quality videos official 1980-science-fiction-style song for the song which was released on November 6, 2012. The third single from the album is "Welcome to the Now Age," published on October 26, 2012. Top 10 Hits of the End of World distributed digitally and physically to the whole world with Paw Tracks label on November 6, 2012.
Critical reception
Top 10 Hits of the End of the World collects stunned public opinion from professional music journalists. Almusic journalist Thom Jurek writes that while some songs are worthy, Prince Rama "is deeply involved with their campy concept, they forget to write and record music that is capable of carrying its weight." Spectrum Culture critic Nathan Kamal analyzed his albums both in terms of songwriting and has a very ambitious concept but failed in terms of execution: "Also performed like some of the songs on the Top End Hits of the World are, they all share so much of Prince Rama's own sensitivity that it's hard to take him seriously as a fictional band creations. "
Lester described the Top 10 Hits of the World's End as the "stop of the week". He criticized how press releases market LP; he argues that while the album was "by no means bad or unpleasant," it was only "10 variations on the theme" of the "average" indie style, not following the genre of "ghost-modern glam" and "cosmos disco" as promised by Press conference. The lack of real-life genre exercises as stated in press releases is even noted in the positive review of Farah, who blames this on an album that has "too much reverb:" "It is uncertain whether the reverb was meant to mimic the degradation of a long-lost tape or just a part from aesthetics that are abused by everyone connected to the indie rock world, but nevertheless, it takes something from the final product. "Journalist Corinne Bagish stated that the album's concept of various musical groups featuring different styles of songs is ambitious but unsuccessful because each song sounds too similar to each other. The reviewer for No Ripcord praised Top 10 End Hits for being more "focused" and had more "serious hooks" with "endless intensity" than last Prince Rama Album. However, he also analyzed that, despite following apocalyptic-based ideas, LP has only a very few resembling parts of the apocalypse and is nothing more than a collection of comfortable but not entirely memorable sleeping pop songs that barely separated from countless other acts following in the footsteps more innovative predecessors like Ariel Pink and John Maus. "
Another prominent criticism in various reviews is Prince Rama who departs from the style and sound that defines them in their previous records. Kivel writes that when Prince Rama tried to impose other bands, it felt like they were "forcing themselves on a cheap piece of karaoke." He argues, "it is clear throughout this path that Prince Rama enjoys acting this scenario, but there is not enough to make these voices as anything beyond transference." He feels that the tracks where duo sound more like their sounds are the best in LP. Mark Shukla of The Skinny magazine writes that, while the LP concept is "quite clever," Prince Rama music departs from "pulling" sounds from their past records to the "Gang Gang Low-rent Dance" style consisting of too many "bare-bones synth/guitar jams." Similarly, Andrew Hannah of The Line of Best Fit stated that the album "diluted what made Prince Rama - live in Hare Krishna commune aside - so charming in the first place "for the style he describes as" a Gang Gang Dance of the Poor. "Jurek also dislikes LP for being post-apocalyptic records without using parts of the group's" excess brand "on their previous albums, felt that it was "an unedited copy and out of themselves." Kivel describes Top 10 Hits of the World's End as a "cut and difficult" listening experience. He writes that the concept of the Top 10 Hits of the End of the World has been dismissed by the fact that "seeing a band with a very stylish identity sitting in another band with a very stylish identity" and that "more often than not, these parts collide, each other is very strong. " Reed writes that, in terms of album-only music, it's "apocalyptic bland," describing the duo as "a poor pop urine act, even when they're pretending."
However, Top 10 Hits of the End of the World are still getting good reviews. Pitchfork contributor Zach Kelly calls it Prince Rama's best album in his review, describing it as "a fun pop experience that both work independently of the concept and pay the larger dividends the more you play together." He highlights the recording focus on much less common "movements, hooks, and accessibility" in Prince Rama's earlier notes and "how quickly he volunteered to parody while most avoided complete self-sabotage." The review is not entirely without negativity; he feels that the album "is not as exciting as it could be, because the Larson brothers returned to the old habits with a series of songs that were too reminiscent of last year Trust Now ," and he also argues that all songs will match for a higher quality sound than a lo-fi production. Young is called Top 10 Hits from the End of the World "often brilliant and sometimes very bad," but overall "very interesting." He writes that there is "an oddity characterized by these songs, however, that makes them very alluring." He was most favorable against the two final cuts of the album, describing them as "marrying a strange and accessible effect to winning." He recorded the centerpiece of the album to become the weakest, writing that it most displayed the group "a tendency to overlay their dominant for deep mysticism and psychedelia." He portrays the middle part as being composed of "impenetrable sound and noodling aimless," "almost as if they've made the decision to make an open pop record but not quite how to do it so sometimes end up typing again."
Willcoma writes that LP can appeal to "freaks" while still appealing to other listeners and recommend purchasing a physical version of the album for "visual elements." A very positive review came from Jonathan Donaldso of The Phoenix . He wrote that listeners can enjoy listening to the pleasure of the album without knowing the concept, writes that, in terms of recorded music, "Prince Rama, with this stupid stupidity, has generated a lot." Farah praised the concept and visual part of the album, writing that it was "not only amazing, but it is necessary to tie it all together." A reviewer for the Impose magazine described this album as "a polemic on sluggish cultural conditions and lack of meaning in spirit and heart" and praised it as "sometimes meditative, often high-energy, and with outlines that very well that rarely makes listeners uninvolved or disappointed. "Rookie magazine Eleanor Hardwick calls it one of the best albums of 2012, writing that" the concept makes the album super varied, but all the songs are a dance-y pop that best." Tom Breihan, which includes notes for the "Album of the Week" column, Stereogum, calls it the best release of Prince Rama, praised the recording concept for improving the duo's music quality: "By pretending to be 10 fictional bands they have to stop exercising and start investigating pop ideas, but do it in an explorative and non-serious way, and by tying all the songs with explicitly apocalyptic themes, they have also freed themselves from the burden of writing music direct pop, instead of spoiling the end-time spirit that makes their music more urgent and more diffuse. "
Track list
Adapted from liner notes from Top 10 Hits of the World's End .
Personnel
Credits are adapted from press releases by Trek Paw and liner notes from Top 10 Hits from End of the World .
- Written, done and recorded by Taraka Larson
- Performed by Nimai Larson
- Recorded by Tim Koh in "Studio Haunted Graffiti Ariel Pink"
- Recorded, mixed and produced by Scott Colburn at Gravelvoice Studios in Seattle, Washington
- Artwork by Jo Cutri
- Photography by Samantha Casolari
Release history
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References
External links
- Photo gallery for Top 10 Hits from the End of the World on Samantha Casolari's official website
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