#grotesque modern

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justin gradin's individual/collaborative projects in music, art and overall entrepreneurial endeavors. have you seen the unravelled man with the poodle snacking on sausage links? 

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Modern Creatures - Thick Thick Black

Modern Creatures - Thick Thick Black Grotesque Modern 2007 (GROSSMOD04)

Basically, this record is a solid, danceable retread of the faster side of bleak post-punk. Modern Creatures have a surprising level of dynamism for having two basses, and it works for this EP, but it remains to be seen if it could last for an entire album.

Despite and because of the spot-on aural aesthetic, it all sounds the same. Thick Thick Black and To a Crowd sound uncannily similar. Luckily, all three tracks are decent songs, made better by an interesting narrative. The title track was written and recorded, and then subsequently lost. The creatures tried to rewrite it with Time to Go, realized that they were way off, pumped out To a Crowd, and then rediscovered the original song. I just invented that story, but the more I think about it, the more it sounds true.

Thick Thick Black is a fun, disposable record that'll get thrown on at some parties, especially towards the end of October. Emergency Room completists probably need it, but it's by no means an essential, even within that scene.

MP3 - Modern Creatures Time to Go

A1: Thick Thick Black A2: Time to Go B: To a Crowd

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Modernity

Channels 3x4, Modern Creatures, and Nü Sensae at the Sweatshop, November 6, 2008

Thursday night I bicycled to the Sweatshop for Channels 3x4, simply because I wanted something to do. Nu Sensae started with the usual: voodoo punk, stripped down, dancey, aggressive. They ended with a couple songs not on their record, which were pretty wild, although don't maintain the same psychotic dance craze charm.

I forgot that Modern Creatures have a couple decent songs on their 7", and not much else. Once I had heard those, I noticed that it was midnight before a work day, and everything else they were playing was pretty uninteresting, so I biked up Victoria, back to my bed.

I decided to pull out that 7" and finally pour my opinion on it, after telling myself I would review when I bought it at the release party.

...jump