Skip to main content

Water from Hell

I wasn't sure what bag to review tonight. I saw some Ridgies spicy salt & vinegar in the salty cellar and they piqued my interest...I've however previously reviewed them..but I have a hankering. So what to do, what to do. I know it, have a taste of a new bag then dip into the spicy S&V afterwards. I've had a 58g bag of Doritos 3D Crunch Chili Cheese Nacho flavoured corn snacks in the cupboard for a minute, perfect. Then I was left wondering what music would pair with this bag. 

I don't know, I recently picked up a copy of Brickfight's 2016 release To What End from Rad Girlfriend and quite enjoyed it. I had never listened to Chicago's Brickfight before purchasing it. When I ordered the new Mikey Erg album, to make the shipping come close to sort of making sense I filled out the order with some of the RGR back catalogue and voila, I ended up with a gruff midwestern pop punk gem. Yeah, that's what I'll write words about. Jump 1 minute later to me googling Brickfight bandcamp (kids are sleeping, didn't want to throw the LP on) and what is this...Brickfight released an album called Harvester of Nachos. Well dang, I've never listened to this album before starting this review, but I have no other choice but to provide a hasty review of this 2011 Dirt Cult/Let's Pretend release (which appears to be a collection of b-sides or 7" songs).

Doritos 3D are basically bugles with the end closed in, I for some reason didn't expect this. Fun little things. Decent crunch, with a light corn taste. If they called these Spicy Chili Cheese Nacho I wouldn't argue with them. There's a bit more of a kick than I anticipated. These corn snacks are airy, but as previously noted still crunchy. They're similar to a jalapeno chip heat, enjoyable flavourful heat, with some powder cheese flavour that's more prominent in the back end. There's nothing overly new in this bag, I've tasted similar base chips before, I've tasted a mid to spicy nacho cheese flavoured chips before (I want to say they're Doritos 2nd degree burn seasoning repurposed), but I don't believe I've had this exact combo before and it slaps. You should still be able to find these, the BB on them is April 20 2021, if you see a bag and like a bit of kick they're worth your time.

So yeah, Harvester of Nachos. As I said, this is my first listen, so lyrics aren't really getting picked up. Not because the vocals are unclear but because between trying to convey my thoughts on the above chips, and my general inability to pick up on lyrics in the first few listens without a lyric sheet, well, you get what you get. The song titles are on a humerus D4 tip. As I mentioned earlier, they're gruff midwestern pop punk. Mid to up tempo songs that for the most part hover around the 2 minute mark give or take 20 seconds. They list vocals under 3 of the members, and it seems that at least 2 contribute to each song, likely all 3. A good amount of harmonies/dual/tri vocals. The voices range from relatively clean and sometimes somewhat nasal (but not off putting), to higher pitched yell scream, to deep and gruff yell. Because this is a comp, production is variable but in general good. Brickfight sounds fun, and fairly raw on Harvester of Nachos.   

Stay hydrated,

MARC

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The End of All Things

 I am not an expert on Nomeansno, but I can tell you this..their music can be quite difficult to get on physical media (LP, CD or otherwise [unless you want to spend somewhat spicy money]) in Canada. Luckily, Alternative Tentacles reissued Wrong. Now, cross border shipping is still muy caliente, but enough distros picked it up in Canada to allow me to put Wrong into my record collection this year. Nomeansno (since 1979) played (ended 2016) chaotic punk rock that I want to say fell into hardcore, but they were far more than a single genre. Wrong is unconventional for a punk band to say the least. The bass is lively as hell, with a tone that's absolutely perfect. The drums know when to get weird and when to kick it into overdrive. I don't know if it's jazz or funk, but there's something in the mix that if Nomeansno wasn't so aggressive it might feel pretentious..instead they're just odd and make me wish I had the opportunity to seem them live. Lyrics are talk sung...
Post a Comment
Read more

Piss Angel

I'm not super into metal. I enjoy dabbling into the genre every once in a while, however I am far from being an expert.  A good number of years ago I read a review of this band called Pig Destroyer; they had no bassist and played some heavy fucking metal. I checked them out on myspace because the review, and name of the band, intrigued me. The music was good enough, however being that I lean more towards the punk side of the music spectrum I didn't feel the need to add any of their music to my collection. That being said their name has always stuck with me..and whenever I put those words together it brings to mind blackness. I can only assume that their shows have the gnarliest of mosh pits. In my mind it'd be one of those pits that people go into expecting to get hurt. The first few minutes might be awesome but eventually you end up with a bloody nose and dislocated shoulder. It's more of a dick out than a fun time... This past Friday I had a small bag of Blair'...
2 comments
Read more

Dying Every Day

 Yooooo! Old Dutch Pretzel Pieces, All Dressed Flavoured, are bangin'. I wasn't planning on putting up a post tonight, thought maybe I'd just take some notes in my phone, then I popped these in my maw and had to grab the laptop. The pieces are soo piecey, it's like someone had a bad day and took a bat to these pretzels (that would have been 1.5cm+/- diameter. I'm not typically a pretzel man, but these are thick enough that they're not just dried out meh, they have a dense crunch. Mildly bready (but still crunchy) goodness. Now, the flavour is what really knocked my socks off. I'm not sure if they use an agent or if there's moisture from the pretzels but the seasoning is heavily covering these pretzel pieces. It's like when you're at the movie theatre and put butter or margarine on the popcorn, then sprinkle some seasoning on and it's almost like a pasty seasoning in certain parts. There's also some well-toasted pretzel that welcomingly po...
Post a Comment
Read more