Alex Wiley Coyote - II
Landing from dizzying heights, avoiding giant rocks falling from the sky, and eating perfectly cooked roasted road runner, is the life of Alex Wiley Coyote. With a guitar and classic Casio keyboard, the ammunition to fire is well written lyrics. This composition is a treat, great diversity, lyrics both silly and serious orbiting around similar tunes both spirited and heavy. Wondering what will be next and where this tape is going, are refreshing aspects to Alex Wiley Coyote's second release.
Pressing play on II from Alex Wiley Coyote grabs attention immediately. Starting off with a track combining the playful electro groove of Devo and vocals in a serious tone resembling Roky Erickson, yes this is cool. Subsequent selections move in vast directions, lots of guitar, electronics, samples and subliminal messages. Although "(I'm Gonna) Kill You" is a very direct message and hopefully over the top... "i'm gonna find you on the internet and kill you, i'm gonna come into your house and kill you, yeah i'm gonna kill you because it's what i want to do". The last time a song sent such a direct message like this was maybe Hasil Adkins' No More Hot Dogs. Changes in scope are a mainstay, from tracks like "Bird in the House", a quick punk riff, followed by a well penned and witty Randy Newman Short People remake called "Dead People II". The last track and the longest shows how weighty these sounds can get. A mildly quirky dive into the crashing shore of psychedelic rock and tumbling samples on dollar store boogie boards.
Just released last week, this is Alex Wiley Coyote's second full length cassette on Worry Records. Following up a cassette released last year titled Psychedelic Problems, sold out in physical form. Not sure how many copies of II there are, but you can currently get one before they are gone.
Links
Alex Wiley Coyote - bandcamp - facebook
Worry Records site - bandcamp - facebook
Pressing play on II from Alex Wiley Coyote grabs attention immediately. Starting off with a track combining the playful electro groove of Devo and vocals in a serious tone resembling Roky Erickson, yes this is cool. Subsequent selections move in vast directions, lots of guitar, electronics, samples and subliminal messages. Although "(I'm Gonna) Kill You" is a very direct message and hopefully over the top... "i'm gonna find you on the internet and kill you, i'm gonna come into your house and kill you, yeah i'm gonna kill you because it's what i want to do". The last time a song sent such a direct message like this was maybe Hasil Adkins' No More Hot Dogs. Changes in scope are a mainstay, from tracks like "Bird in the House", a quick punk riff, followed by a well penned and witty Randy Newman Short People remake called "Dead People II". The last track and the longest shows how weighty these sounds can get. A mildly quirky dive into the crashing shore of psychedelic rock and tumbling samples on dollar store boogie boards.
Just released last week, this is Alex Wiley Coyote's second full length cassette on Worry Records. Following up a cassette released last year titled Psychedelic Problems, sold out in physical form. Not sure how many copies of II there are, but you can currently get one before they are gone.
Links
Alex Wiley Coyote - bandcamp - facebook
Worry Records site - bandcamp - facebook
