Best New Music: Frodo Suckling Mother Nature – Mother Natures Natural Blues
While most of Pitchzpork is championing the massive sounds of bands such as Superocean and California Jaguars, another altogether more contemplative subtle scene is bubbling away under music’s bubbly surface. Bubble. A new collection of artists heralding from the Baltic nations are insighting an altogether more quite riot.
Cue Frodo Suckling Mother Nature, a band so in-tune with the earth they need no instruments at all. The collective/cult believe in having no possessions and instead steal equipment from passing touring bands. They assemble sounds from such varied sources as the Pharaoh Ants marching across Led Zeppelin’s touring reverb chamber, and the mating squeals of the Rolling Stones small army of Chinchilla’s (they allegedly throw them through hotel windows these days). Mick was furious when he found out that his Chinchillas had been used in recording sessions without his permission and a court battle ensued. However Frodo Suckling Mother Nature have enough fans in their home country of Estonia to be classed as a religion and therefore could not be sued, further enraging Sir Mic. Frodo Suckling Mother Nature then released the highly controversial ode to Mick Hey You Get Off Of My Chinchilla to rapturous applause from their legion of fans (affectionley known as Dickciples).
Their new release Mother Natures Natural Blues pays homage to outside broadcasting with tiny rhythms, constructed by sampling and sequencing rare insects to form glitchy Mother Earthcore at almost inaudible levels. It requires the your sound system to be turned up to unusually high levels. This factor, although slightly annoying, ultimately makes the record as it was built to include the hiss your stereo makes at high volumes. Linear notes state that the hiss in question is F#m7dim9sus1 and that (quite amazingly) is the same note that bees make while full of honey. We find this out in a Spiritualized-esqe addition to the album: a bee slowly buzzing throughout the whole record. The notes add that although the bee is the closest thing to stereo hiss, they did have to put the bee in a tiny corset in order to raise the pitch by 1/1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 HrtZ to attain the perfect note. The results are astounding and this reviewer is selling up and moving into their compound as soon as he has sold the last of his belongings.
Here’s a list of belongings still to sell:
12500 Old School Rave Vinyl (list on demand)
