Flowery Speech Writes

Listening to Dirtbike is like disintegrating, feedback-heavy pop music, depression ballads and inner peace cassette recordings all in one digital box of songs. If you couldn’t already tell, I really enjoyed this album for its uncanny and unconventional collage of styles and singings. The existence of this album revitalized my faith in bedroom or “lo-fi” style of music, I love all genres and styles of music but in recent years I feel lo-fi and bedroom music rebranded into a more commercialized style which excludes the weirder, more interesting aspects of the genre. So when I discovered Dirtbike, I was surprised to hear tape-recorder roughness in the recordings but it was a delight nonetheless. Some songs on this LP are super harsh and chaotic with traces of calmness in the midst of it all. Other songs are melodic and peaceful yet there are still remnants of distortion and feedback / hissing which exemplifies the contrast between songs and in each song alike. When listening though, t...