{"id":1049,"date":"2012-05-15T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bolachas.org\/testes\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2012-05-15T12:54:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T12:54:00","slug":"holobody-riverhood-mush-records-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bolachas.org\/?p=1049","title":{"rendered":"Holobody, “Riverhood” (Mush Records, 2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve first heard of Sea Oleena<\/strong> when my mates from Lizard Kisses<\/strong> told me she was going to participate on their latest EP, Tiny Island Teeth<\/em>, which I released on Cakes and Tapes late last year. Since I heard that one song<\/a>, I instantly went and downloaded her latest album, Sleeplessness<\/em><\/a>, which got me hooked for weeks. Her name caught my eye again when reading the press release relative to this album, and I knew I had to take a listen to it.<\/p>\n

Holobody<\/strong><\/a> is a duo comprised of Oleena and her brother (which goes by the moniker of Felix Green<\/strong>). One can read the words “gospel, "hip-hop”, “electronica” and “folk” in the first sentence of the album description. Beware. Such a melting pot of genres may put off anyone who isn’t exactly looking for the future of music<\/em> in the non-form<\/em> of a batch of mp3s AND got tired of 96% of all music tagged “experimental” on the internets. That would be me, but strangely enough I found Riverhood<\/em>’s opening track, “Unfold”, to be quite entertaining – sounds like something Why?<\/strong> could have done – and decided not to close the tab on which I was streaming it right away.<\/p>\n

After listening to her solo stuff, it may seem a bit strange to hear Sea Oleena rapping – but then again, she never sounded\u00a0conventional<\/em> at all. On “Hurricane Season” she shares singing\/rapping duties with her bro Green above a sea (pun not intended) of bleeps, bloops and samples; “Riverbed” is the highlight in the first half of the record, with Oleena’s whispered vocals providing a warm atmosphere. One of my few personal complaints about Riverhood<\/em> as a whole is how the constant shift from quiet and ethereal to beat-infested schizophrenia puts me off from listening to it from start to finish without skipping a track or changing the tracklist around; fortunately enough, “Down to the River to Pray” kicked in near the end of the album – here’s the gospel! And it makes me want to praise the Lord or something. That’s what I wrote on a review of Spiritualized<\/strong>’s Sweet Heart, Sweet Light<\/em> that I never finished and that’s what I’m going to say everytime I hear the words “Lord”, “Jesus” or “God” on a good song. But this time I think I saw the light somewhere during this jam’s coda.<\/p>\n

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&amp;lt;a href=“http:\/\/holobody.bandcamp.com\/album\/riverhood” data-mce-href=“http:\/\/holobody.bandcamp.com\/album\/riverhood”&amp;gt;Riverhood by Holobody&amp;lt;\/a&amp;gt;<\/p>\n

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