Real strange one. Justin C. Meyers is an instrumental builder, sound artist, label head, etc. Struggle Artist was created during on breaks from his job at a hospital and, later, in his free time once he got laid off (hence the title?). It's a collection of 14 micro-compositions, each one closing in anywhere from 1 to 4 minutes - quickly building, densely layered collections of sounds - field recordings, keyboards, synths, acoustic instrumentation. There's a lot to digest in each of these tracks. It was more admirable than enjoyable but I can't think of anything else it really sounds like. Interesting. I'll keep tabs on Mr. Meyers for what comes next.
I keep up with Sunburned only intermittently these days, they seem to be taking a more rock-ist approach lately. Like this one. Each track is about 4-5 minutes of pretty ramshackle, jammy, funky, boogie rock...almost spoiled by the throaty, beery vocals shouted over the top of each one of these tunes with nonsensical platitudes. I almost shut it off after a couple tracks but I stuck it out and kinda came around on some level. I was oddly reminded of My War era Black Flag sludge punk. The band sez "these Holy Grail fueled recordings are a mix of iphone and zoom recordings run through garageband, reaper and some plug-ins. We're still working on the much more listener-friendly Black Dirt session..." and point taken, listener friendly this ain't.
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