New Release - MBRD - WET CARDBOARD

 

MBRD is both the artist name and the initials of an extremely prolific, enigmatic, irreverent producer of self-described "weird ringtone esque-avantgarde-experimental-wackyweird music", and WET CARDBOARD is their latest release on Bandcamp (available here).  A short release, all told, only 3 tracks with a total run time of under 15 minutes. That said, it appears that by following MBRD on bandcamp, you will get many short, periodic, and frequent missives from their unique point of view. With digital releases and pandemic boredom, a short runtime is certainly not a mark against the artist here.

At times disjointed, quirky, nonsensical, but other times sweet, fresh, catchy as hell, the flow can be disorienting as much as it can be spine-tingling. Truly a collage of different ideas, sometimes carefully placed with intent, sometimes merely mashed up against one another.

Some parts of the release give me the feeling of walking through a crowded shopping mall, anachronistic in some sense, somehow adjacent to the fleeting nostalgia of vapourwave, rubbing shoulders against strangers of all stripes, distorted guitar chugging along for a few seconds before transitioning to reverb washed keyboards, then on to hip hop or trap beats, spanky guitars, television show title music, and twinkling synths right out of a downtempo electronica track.

Just as you think you are well settled in to a groove or feeling, MBRD delights in rattling your cage a little, and putting a new sound in your head.

Best listened to while speed-reading the sears catalog, or flipping through tv channels on mute.

G

Links

MBRD - WET CARDBOARD: https://mrbdmusic.bandcamp.com/album/wet-cardboard