Him
Peoples

The keenest among you might have noticed that on the cover on the right, there’s no tattooed Norwegian licking his biceps, and perhaps some of you even thought: these are not the famous HIM, the ones with the rather funny logo that looks like the pornographic version of the five-pointed star of the BR. In fact, they are not.

No homonymy was ever more mocking, and forgive the pedantry with which I started the discussion, but I know that a lot of self-proclaimed experts will come to annoy without even reading the first lines. In short, if you end up looking like fools, what can I do about it?

As I was saying, Him. They were brought up by drummer Doug Scharin, the one who played in groups like June of 44 or Codeine, post-rock more or less post. In this little project instead, you can also find a bit of jazz, fusion, dub, polyrhythms, and strange things of that kind, that drummers indeed like.
On the internet, some acclaim them as bearers of new tablets of the law, some say "well, the usual stuff, here and there, up and down." The problem is that some people, in this era where artistic coolness necessarily passes through that oversaturation of 20th-century nonsense, surrealist on one side and Dadaist on the other, which - at least in my opinion - stopped being interesting a while ago... in this era, I was saying, some people evaluate music solely based on style.

How much boring minimal syrup did we have to endure just because a certain style was fashionable for a while! The concept of "indie," I was talking about it the other day with a penguin, has justified a lot of awful music lacking inspiration and interest. Even post-rock, to get into the topic, come on! Our generation needs new evaluative mechanics, new systems of categories! Do we want to go on like this forever? Maybe this album won’t be one of those that always stay at the top of the CD pile, but you don’t have to dismantle it just because they make post-rock mixed with so much stuff that in the end it has no flavor anymore.

As I was saying, this album is really nice, full of pieces with music inside. There are guitars and bass, marimbas, a bit of electronic things, and the guys singing over them. Drums, percussion. The flute, too. You’ll have a good time, maybe even understand what those singing are saying, then turn off the CD player, and then, worst case, go take a bath, there!