Shooting in the Dark

Blake9, the Virginia resident has teamed up with Bisquite Powerpoppin to release the electronic/hip-hop album, Shooting in the Dark. The two blend together tempos from hip-hop with the sound of electronic music into a set of hybrid songs that try to push the norm. The songs have a little from each of the styles clearly heard in the music but have tried to make the two styles into one of their own. The songs are supposed to be fun, or at least I get the feeling that they are supposed to be fun but they're not. While listening I was trying to get into the music that was playing but I couldn't.

Songs shouldn't be forced to be liked and this is what I was trying to do to myself, force me liking what I was hearing. The major flaw these songs have is the lack of changing the sounds being played from one track to the next. Every song, and I mean every song, has the same style vocals being used where they where short and had no style to them. Here's the progression of the songs, none. If I were to play the first song, the middle, and the last I wouldn't notice that they had changed or that they where any different from one another. If the lyrics changed some, just with some of the songs so that it didn't sound like I was listening to the same song then I might have been able to want to listen to the album more than I actually did.

Adding to the same style as the vocals were the tempos and beats. It was almost like they decided that they could play a total of 5 different beats and these 5 beats would be split up throughout the 9 songs. There's no creativity in the songs, at least none that I was hearing beyond the initial sound of the first song. With this lack of verity in the songs I was only bored with listen to them. I couldn't get pumped up with the songs because the songs weren't making me want to. I noticed that there was way too many times that I was bored while listening to the songs, I became distracted, and worse of all I wanted to stop playing it so I could find a song that I actually did want to listen to. These two guys know how to do one song style in a ok way but then they tried to make that one song into 9 instead of giving me 9 different songs.