Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
applied communications is the pseudonym of virile young transit poet, max wood. max was born in Florida in the eighties and was raised on the indie-rock tastes of his sub-pop employee mother and her various b-list rock star friends, spending holidays with the likes of the dwarves and getting creepy phone calls from rick james. given a four-track, a strange sequencer/drum-machine/midi box, and a casio mt-46 at age 12, he started to make exceptionally strange music.
he made tapes of it and distributed them to strangers at record stores, art openings, shows of bands that he liked, and at his own shows, which, due to his age and ignorance of the indie-music situation around him, occurred only at neighborhood laundromats, art museum auditoriums, jewish community centers, and bus stations.
Product Description
'africa baby, yeah yeah yeah' is the new album from applied communications, the pseudonym of virile young transit poet, max wood. the album works as a sound-collage of sorts, developing itself within several different genres and then creating something new by re-interpreting different style conventions and mixing many unlikely elements. on two of the record's tracks, 'ocean! ocean! ocean!' and 'kristmas', applied communications comes across as a modernized grandmaster flash meets henry mancini by blending dense layers of techno dance-beats with string sections, jazz-inspired horns, and a not-quite-rapping vocal delivery that sustains consistent change. the lyrics on the disc are composed of abstract imagery and often bizarre construction that compliment the cut-and-paste aesthetic that most of the album's music was arranged in. some tracks aren't as complicated as others, but all convey a unique feeling of fun and/or awkwardness.
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Africa Baby, Yeah Yeah Yeah
Applied Communications Manufacturer: Discos Mariscos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD  General
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| Broadway & Vocalists
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Pop Rock
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ASIN: B0001WAL1K Release Date: 2004-03-16 |
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Album Description
'africa baby, yeah yeah yeah' is the new album from applied communications, the pseudonym of virile young transit poet, max wood. the album works as a sound-collage of sorts, developing itself within several different genres and then creating something new by re-interpreting different style conventions and mixing many unlikely elements. on two of the record's tracks, 'ocean! ocean! ocean!' and 'kristmas', applied communications comes across as a modernized grandmaster flash meets henry mancini by blending dense layers of techno dance-beats with string sections, jazz-inspired horns, and a not-quite-rapping vocal delivery that sustains consistent change. the lyrics on the disc are composed of abstract imagery and often bizarre construction that compliment the cut-and-paste aesthetic that most of the album's music was arranged in. some tracks aren't as complicated as others, but all convey a unique feeling of fun and/or awkwardness.Customer Reviews:
incredible.......2005-03-24
darling, please.......2004-05-29
having said that --- darling, please.
i'm here to offer you my opinion as someone who is not directly involved in the production of "africa baby, yeah yeah yeah." thank me, coz everything else on here thus far is propoganda. my opinion is this: max wood has potential. you can hear the potential when he stops trying to be artsy and ceases the constant channeling of his influences. it comes across smooth then, baby, not unlike butter. but those moments are few and far between right now.
in case you think i'm a hater, please feel free to check out allmusic. they liked this a lot. they compared ac to cex. that's like comparing a donkey to a tiger coz they both have tails. regardless, you are welcome to the happy reviews.
africa baby, yeah yeah yeah is not the main course, in my opinion. it is merely the appetizer for the album brewing in the mind of a boy who has yet to leave, learn, discover, and ultimately write some tunes that i would be proud to give 5 stars. having gone at this tough love 80s style, i will now tell you this:
go ahead and buy the record.
i don't know what kind of compelling reason you need. perhaps you surfed across this without setting out to buy africa baby yeah yeah yeah. but i doubt it. you're most likely here coz someone told you a kid from your town has an album out and you can buy it on amazon. now buy it, already, so he can make enough cash to do some interesting things and write some songs for that main course album i was talking about.
yours,
gnosis
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