Smash

Smash By Jackson & His Computer Band was their Debut Album, released in 2005, the album consists of a mash up of electronic music and various tracks have been used for tv adverts and shows.”Utopia” was used in the O2 bubble campaign ad.

The Album begins with “Utopia” an eerie sounding song which features glitched female voices, the song is quite strange but it is interesting to listen to. The song changes in the middle and the glitched voices disappear leaving angelic choir voices but it soon returns to its former state. The song is really vague and empty in a sense so it isn't everyone's cup of tea.”Oh Boy” is a narrative song which actually is read by his 4 year old niece. The song is really made dramatic by the accompanying music and the story is quite intriguing. “Hard Tits” sounds quite dreamy once again but also is more related to the regular song structure and sound, it features and old sounding piano, the song remains quite gentle and easy to listen to. The song falls into a loop at the end and dies out.”Tropical Metal” includes a piano for the more empty bits however the songs “chorus” is a lively electronic passage which livens the song up but gets de-assembled nearing the end.”Radio Caca” ends the album with a rather disjointed song which sounds like its trying to escape into a fully functional song which is quite interesting to listen to as there are many diverse little fragments of music that sound really nice and they actually sound quite good together. The song really sums up the album in my opinion as it has a lot of the ideas and features of the earlier songs.

Smash By Jackson & His Computer Band Is Ascrono Music's Album of the week because of the way it challenges the way we listen to music and also because it was a really interesting listen, it isn't normally what most people would listen to but it does open peoples eyes to other types and make them enjoy music a lot more