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Hop In By Jeremy Grand Reality Serum describes their genre as trans-urban, which is a shorter term for ambient-hip hop-rock-psychedelic-techno all rolled into one hell of a trip. Hop In, the first full-length album from these Long Island barrier prodders, is basically a bunch of fingers snapping in your face from all different directions, telling you to look here, here, here, and here, while creating a constant and mesmerizing disillusionment that forces one to realize that there is something else in the LI music scene besides emo-punk and scenesters. And for that reason alone Reality Serum is worth a listen. But don't listen to them just for that reason. These island hypnotists have created some beautiful poetry, though guised under the shade of monotonous rap. But it's the good kind of monotony, the kind that makes you either nod your head and say yeah, yeah, or the kind that puts you into a drugless, trance-like state, and makes you wish you were at a rave in 1997. Hop In is experimental music at its best, combining three basic genres of music that is rarely, if ever at all, heard together in complete harmony, and for that a salute and a medal is in honor. Maybe now we can start to see something other than swooping black hair, tight pants, song titles that are way too long, and screaming about cheating girlfriends, all things that have run absolutely rampant, especially on this floating rock. Hop in everyone, it's a chill ride down the coast. |
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