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 Editor, reviewer and gonzo writing machine Mitch Phillips introduces you to (or revisits, depending on your perspective) Vietnam Prom. Though they fancy themselves time travelers, this band's unique sense of psycho-depressive realism is sufficiently available in the present...
'Vietnam Prom's music is experiential reality stripped of hope and aspiration then injected with narcotics to aid the nihilistic urge to disappear from this creation.'
Click "Read More" below to get injected.Song -"Volger & Violent
Artist - Vietnam Prom
Album - Three Times Three
Label - Burning baby records
If you need a soundtrack for your latest lapse into severe depression,
"Volger & Violent" (sic) from Viet Nam Prom may be a good place to start.
Listening to this sluggish dirge replete with tortured lyrics delivered via
lifeless melody and drowned in a dirty brownfield puddle of reverb is sure to
drive you to the ineluctable conclusion that the climax of your life will be
it's pitiful end, crumpled into the fetal position somewhere in a crack-house
alley, crushed by the percieved weight of this joyless world.
Song - "Robotic Heart"
Artist - Vietnam Prom
CD - Crack TV
Label - Burning Baby Records
Continuing to explore the subtle nuances of bi-polar disorder, Vietnam
Prom delivers a study of atonal and dissonant guitar melody with a mix of
eery Orwelian background samples in "Robotic Heart". This chattering of the
subconscious mind might be what you'd hear wandering past The Ministry of
Thought while a rush of thick blood suddenly overcame your Soma-addled brain.
The piece evolves from expressionistic guitar melody to a polyrhythmic
guitar/drum battery akin to King Crimson, but much, much darker. "Robotic
Heart" reaches deep into the musty corners of bleakness and leaves you
feeling cold, wet and soiled from the journey.
Song -"Boy Howdy"
Artist - Vietnam Prom
Album - Three Times Three
Label - Burning baby records
(First Impression: think geriatric Ozzy singing for late-sixties Pink
Floyd. ) While still immeasurably depressing, Vietnam Prom delivers the
goods on "Boy Howdy, refining their dreary narcotic vision into a cohesive
vibe with a rusty, but sharp hook to aid in the enjoyment of your acute
tetanus. My favorite Vietnam Prom-enade so far.
After sampling a few more of their songs, "Beatle Dance", "Killing of
America", "The Love Gods Breakdown", etc...it became apparent that,
although fearless when exploring the whims of psychedelic impressionism,
Vietnam Prom rarely, if ever venture out of their depressing psychosis.
Their music is a reminder to me why I left drug life far behind, convinced my
soul couldn't survive the desolation of cold, empty spaces it created in my
subconscious.
But the stark contrast of Vietnam Prom's music to the antiseptic jingles
of commercial radio or just about any other music is significant; to listen
for any length of time is to be proufoundly affected, if for no other reason
than the unfamiliar and disturbing sensation of falling deeper into the
shadows than you ever dared to go. Adding to that contrast is the sexless
nature of their music, devoid of grandeur, posturing, self-aggrandizement or
any of the candy-coated musical treatments we've grown accustomed to in our
search for aural sense-gratification.
Vietnam Prom's music is experiential reality stripped of hope and
aspiration then injected with narcotics to aid the nihilistic urge to
disappear from this creation. It's an apocolyptic prophecy, an aural
psychoscape for those too skittish to suffer a narcotic hangover in the pasty
morning hours of urban decay for themselves. I wouldn't recommend Vietnam
Prom to the faint of heart, or to minors who have access to firearms. But if
you don't quite remember what it was like to wake up in a strange place with
a post-hypnotic ringing in your ears, Vietnam Prom may be the closest
thing you can get short of relapse.
-Mitch Phillips
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