Blood Songs - Gil Mantera's Party Dream

So music can be a little tougher to describe. There's no real pictures to refer to, only the ones in your head. That's the magic of music. People can listen to the same some song, and have a completely different picture painted, have the song move them in maybe a different way or even have varying views on the songs quality. Out of everything I enjoy to talk about on a regular basis, Music is probably the most controversial (is that the right word?) of topics that I like to talk about. Since it can be anything to anyone, nailing Music down can be a tough beast to tackle.

Now, I've talked about Gil Mantera's Party Dream (GMPD) before. There a super awesome band that I found through the podcast Most People Are DJs, which everyone should check out if they have a minute. I've played maybe one or two of their songs on the Accidental Mixtape, which you can get by simply emailing me (seeing how the podcast feed has been changed).

GMPD comes from that super zany school of dancish, poppy funkytastic electronica that we all know any love. If you take Deastro (Our Brother The Megazord) and kinda changed the voice to kind of a normal sounding guy, with occasionally bursts of that robot-ish T Pain voice, you'd have something close to GMPD. Now strike me down now for mentioning T Pain in the same sentence as GMPD. For the record, they are nothing a like.

Blood Songs, as far as I know, was the first album they put out. They recently came out with a new record, Dreamscape, which is definitely worth your time. Blood Songs is an awesome mix of that pounding kind of electronic dance beat, understandable vocals most of the time and the occasional burst of uncomprehensible high energy computron voices. All of these aspects combine together to form a a super awesome album of high octane fun. Alright. maybe not high octane, but definitely fun. Some songs that come to mind are, Buffalo Tears, the first song of the album, Bunz Therapy and Elmo's Wish. Elmo's Wish may be the song that the album is most known for. I've played it for a few people, and it sounds a little like Hellogoodbye. Bunz Therapy is 100% robot and 200% awesome. One of the only lines said in the song is "I'm having fun on waterslide". How can you beat that? And Buffalo Tears, well, it's just a really amazing song. It's exactly the kind of song I was talking about before, conjuring different images and feelings for different people.

In short, Blood Songs is definitely worth your time, and you would be doing yourself a disservice by not checking it out.