Title: What Was He Thinking?!?
Product review: As one of the progenitors of lo-fi DIY, Childish has not only scored some well-deserved respect for his no-frills, impassioned songwriting, but also helped propel the indie attitude and aesthetic significantly.Nonetheless, the man is not without his lapses in judgment. This collection of demos would not be the first time Childish peddles product no one in their right mind would touch (his 'poetry' books are a glaring example). Unless such scraps were one's own, they would be meaningless to anyone else: warbled echoes, mushed guitar sounds, 'acapella' song ideas whispered in the can, and mangled song bits of all sorts -- all this presented as the intimate musings of an 'artiste' at work. What drivel. That such garbage does not embarrass Childish is proof of the man's callousness -- the very trait he so much despises in the record industry.One thing is to make lo-fi music, quite another to release lo-fi demos of lo-fi songs. ...
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