The World Forgot

If you haven’t heard the new album from Greg Gillis, aka Girl Talk, then you probably need to expand your daily blog reading diet to include more than just this lonely corner of the interwebs.  For those of you who are still in the dark Girl Talk stands alone atop the pile of mashup/glitch pop/sampled pop style of music making.  Simply put Mr. Gillis takes samples from between 100 and 150 unique songs and mixes them all together to make an entirely new album.  His latest effort, Feed the Animals, has just been released as a pay what you want style of album {akin to Radiohead’s In Rainbows or the recent offerings by Paste Magazine} and although I don’t believe it’s his greatest album to date it is easily worth the download.  If you’d like the entire album you can snag it here.

mp3 : Girl Talk - Still Here
mp3 : Girl Talk - In Step

The only reason I don’t think this is his finest work yet is due to the rather formulaic approach he seems to have taken in the creation of Feed the Animals.  Throughout the entire album it’s almost all rap vocals played over eighties pop music with an extra bass {guitar or drum} sample thrown in for effect.  This works good as his bread and butter, but I’d like to see him play more with pop lyrics over pop samples {or over rap samples} just to give the album more variety.  The second thing I felt deserves mention is that each song seems to work in thirty to fourty second sections.  At the end of these sections it’s as if the entire song changes; background, vocals, style, etc., all seem to shift at the same moment.  In the past other Girl Talk albums have flowed more fluidly from section to section.

All that being said I still enjoy the album a lot.  There are moments of brilliance in each and every track.  And cheap as free can’t be beat.

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