{"id":73483,"date":"2017-11-12T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=73483"},"modified":"2017-11-12T08:11:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T14:11:22","slug":"sunday-sesh-sludgefest-2-this-time-its-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/sunday-sesh-sludgefest-2-this-time-its-personal\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Sesh: Sludgefest 2 – This Time It’s Personal<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Right around this time last year, the internet at large (and the Toilet at less large<\/a>) concluded that\u00a0Brian Borcherdt<\/strong>\/Lunar Orbit<\/strong>‘s slowed down and eviled up\u00a0Chipmunks on 16 Speed<\/strong> –\u00a0Sludgefest<\/a><\/em> was #goodcontent. In this godless year of 2017, Borcherdt and Chipmunks on 16 Speed returned to take us back to Dave’s House of Horrors with\u00a0Sludgefest 2<\/em> – The Sludgening<\/em>. Do these selections of pop songs performed by fake anthropomorphic animals then slowed down with a record player live up to the last offering and still sound like\u00a0Candlemass<\/strong>? Inquiring minds, inquire within.<\/p>\n

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Although we’re not quite dealing with\u00a0Betteridge’s law of headlines here, as you likely surmised from that leading query, the answer is likely a no for you. The original\u00a0Sludgefest<\/em> was certainly a phenomenon, but its popularity was not solely due to its memeability. As it turns out, slowing down Alvin and Co. reveals a thoughtful layer of vocal harmonies that, when delivered in a doomy tenor, add more than a bit of melancholy to a series of otherwise bright and shiny pop tracks. It doesn’t hurt that the drums crackle and pop and sound absolutely massive in that big 80s\u00a0Ozzy<\/strong> way. “Heaven Is a Place on Earth” sounds like a different song entirely, its wistfulness strained out through a series of killer riffs and eclectic drum fills.<\/p>\n