Band : Cream Abdul Babar and Kylesa
Album : Split
Release Year : 2003
Genre : Hardcore | Sludge | Noise | Experimental
Tracklist :
Cream Abdul Babar
1. Cocaine Pinata
2. Rose in the Mouth
3. Shiss
4. Troy: Sailor
Kylesa
5. The Curse of Lost Days, Part 1
6. The Curse of Lost Days, Part 2
7. The Curse of Lost Days, Part 3
8. The Curse of Lost Days, Part 4
9. The Curse of Lost Days, Part 5
The jury’s still deliberating on whether the name Cream Abdul Babar is either creative and cool or creative and lame. Regardless of the verdict, it’s good to discover that the music that the band plays is as eclectic and curious as its moniker. Cream Abdul Babar has feet kinda sorta in the metalcore and sludge genres, but at the same time avoids being strongly classified as such.
So it’s metalcore hardness, but when the fuzzed out keyboards appear, matching the equally fuzzed out vocals, it’s bliss out time that the above mentioned genres don’t generally supply. It’s heavy and seemingly simple and catchy enough to get into right away, but as you listen more and more, further technicality reveals itself to keep renewing the interest. Kind of weird and original on the level of Horse the Band, but not nearly as spastic and busy.
Kylesa’s half sounds like a mellower collaboration between Old Man Gloom and Today is the Day. Like the former, Kylesa peppers the music that is most closely dropped in the hardcore/ metalcore genre with sections of ambient noise and drone from guitar and electronics. And like Old Man Gloom (particularly the Seminar II album), the noise is anything but: soothing, engaging, meditative, and definitely creative and original, even to the band being compared to.
Much of Kylesa’s vocals sound like those effected, high, twisted, banshee-like, choral vocals that Steve Austin uses in Today is the Day, particularly on the In the Eyes of God record. The result here is also kind of unsettling, but like the music, much less angst and psychosis is conveyed. The comparison to Today is the Day also extends to the music, which is reminds of Today’s older albums: more square and slow and deliberate. But as stated before, Kylesa doesn’t have nearly as large a bone to pick with life as Austin and co., and when the fuzzy instrumental noise track ends off the split CD, you’ll be feeling refreshed and ready for another listen.
1. Cocaine Pinata
2. Rose in the Mouth
3. Shiss
4. Troy: Sailor
Kylesa
5. The Curse of Lost Days, Part 1
6. The Curse of Lost Days, Part 2
7. The Curse of Lost Days, Part 3
8. The Curse of Lost Days, Part 4
9. The Curse of Lost Days, Part 5
The jury’s still deliberating on whether the name Cream Abdul Babar is either creative and cool or creative and lame. Regardless of the verdict, it’s good to discover that the music that the band plays is as eclectic and curious as its moniker. Cream Abdul Babar has feet kinda sorta in the metalcore and sludge genres, but at the same time avoids being strongly classified as such.
So it’s metalcore hardness, but when the fuzzed out keyboards appear, matching the equally fuzzed out vocals, it’s bliss out time that the above mentioned genres don’t generally supply. It’s heavy and seemingly simple and catchy enough to get into right away, but as you listen more and more, further technicality reveals itself to keep renewing the interest. Kind of weird and original on the level of Horse the Band, but not nearly as spastic and busy.
Kylesa’s half sounds like a mellower collaboration between Old Man Gloom and Today is the Day. Like the former, Kylesa peppers the music that is most closely dropped in the hardcore/ metalcore genre with sections of ambient noise and drone from guitar and electronics. And like Old Man Gloom (particularly the Seminar II album), the noise is anything but: soothing, engaging, meditative, and definitely creative and original, even to the band being compared to.
Much of Kylesa’s vocals sound like those effected, high, twisted, banshee-like, choral vocals that Steve Austin uses in Today is the Day, particularly on the In the Eyes of God record. The result here is also kind of unsettling, but like the music, much less angst and psychosis is conveyed. The comparison to Today is the Day also extends to the music, which is reminds of Today’s older albums: more square and slow and deliberate. But as stated before, Kylesa doesn’t have nearly as large a bone to pick with life as Austin and co., and when the fuzzy instrumental noise track ends off the split CD, you’ll be feeling refreshed and ready for another listen.
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