Kero Kero Bonito
TOTEP



Release Date: 2018 | Tracklist

Review Summary: Not something we need in [current year]

If TOTOEP indicates the direction that Kero Kero plan on taking further then some fans will be sorely disappointed: the easy, breezy, care-free bubble-gum delight of Bonito Generation is (almost) gone. Instead, TOTOEP sees Kero Kero getting a tad weirder, introducing some glitch, noise and even jarring guitar parts into the mix, making it seem like the band doesn’t know whether they want to encapsulate the fuzz of another dull garage rock band or the fuzz of a computer overloading on kitsch-ness. Although, the glitch and noise is a welcome change. It helps make Kero Kero’s digital aesthetic not so annoyingly sweet; it’s more like we are hurtling headfirst along the digital highway into some sort of conceptual annihilation, rather than perusing sparkly kawaii blogs on Tumblr. However, the heavier inclusion of more traditionally rock orientated instruments just makes them sound like another lo-fi garage band with a singsong-y female vocalist, which is not something we need in [current year]. Instead, I’d rather they incorporated the glitch-y, noisier parts of their aesthetic into the whole more smoothly, as opposed to treating them like embellishments to their new direction.



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Mort.
March 28th 2018


26085 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

wow this is a mort. review most definetely

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Papa Universe
March 28th 2018


22502 Comments


wow this is a kero release most definitely

Mort.
March 28th 2018


26085 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Thats right!! Take a prize from the shiny jar

Pheromone
March 28th 2018


21634 Comments


when did you write 55 reviews?? pos!

rabidfish
March 28th 2018


8781 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

this didn't need a review, but glad there's one anyways!



I like the sound they tried to go for, i just wish on the next LP there's better production because they do not know how to guitars, apparently. Also, it felt really rushed and unfinished, but since it's just 4 tracks i guess i'll give them a pass this time, the eagerness to get this out there took the best of them.



GmemberKills
March 29th 2018


4576 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I actually really like all these tracks, but overall it just feels too short & incomplete. I don't even mind the production but the tracks don't flow well, and there isn't a lot of variety either. I'd like to here to this style or some these songs again in the context of a full album.

DrGonzo1937
Staff Reviewer
March 29th 2018


18497 Comments


A mort review! I'll be getting on this shortly.

DrGonzo1937
Staff Reviewer
March 29th 2018


18497 Comments


Never heard these guys before, but this sounds more appealing than their earlier work judging from this.

Will check. Sweet rev Mort, as always.

JS19
March 29th 2018


7777 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Yeah this is exactly how i feel

DoofusWainwright
March 29th 2018


19991 Comments

Album Rating: 1.5

Band are going from strength to strength

DoofusWainwright
March 29th 2018


19991 Comments

Album Rating: 1.5

Only thing worse than this in prospect in 2018 is new Kate Nash

Mort.
March 29th 2018


26085 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Thanks for the kind words people. Glad i apparently hit the nail on the head



And doof thats the exact rating id expect from you

parksungjoon
March 29th 2018


47231 Comments


"it’s more like we are hurtling headfirst along the digital highway into some sort of conceptual annihilation, rather than perusing sparkly kawaii blogs on Tumblr."

are you bennett foddy of getting over it fame?

parksungjoon
March 29th 2018


47231 Comments


"just makes them sound like another lo-fi garage band with a singsong-y female vocalist, which is not something we need in [current year]"

arent there dozens of bands like that with a 3.9 average and over a hundred ratings no this site?

Mort.
March 29th 2018


26085 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

"arent there dozens of bands like that with a 3.9 average and over a hundred ratings no this site?"





yes there are and that is exactly my point



and i have no idea who bennett foddy is or why that made you think of him : )

Mort.
March 29th 2018


26085 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

oh hes the guy who did qwop and that weird cauldron man game

DoofusWainwright
March 29th 2018


19991 Comments

Album Rating: 1.5

'And doof thats the exact rating id expect from you'



I predicted I'd rate this a 1 actually, this 1.5 is one of the biggest surprises in my 2018 ratings

parksungjoon
March 29th 2018


47231 Comments


"or why that made you think of him : )"

cuz that game actually has a bunch of similarly worded commentary (frmo his perspective obv) about art and media in the digital age

didnt mean anything deeper than that

Mort.
March 29th 2018


26085 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

fairs. funnily enough i just read that he trained as a philosopher, which is coincidentally what im currently getting my bachelors in

parksungjoon
March 29th 2018


47231 Comments


yeah he has a doctorate in philosophy and taught at a university iirc? but hes also been making weird intentionally-crappy games for like a decade, so thats pretty cool



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