new subtle!

Toot toot, everybody! Time to board the Crazy Train again!

I think Dose One would probably prefer me to describe the music that comes out of his Subtle project as dense with post-modern self-referentiality, hallucinogenic visions and Joycean complexity, but let's admit it, bibbling, batshit, drug-addled insanity works just about as well. He spends his life working on a project of such obscurity that very few of his fans really take the time to unravel it, and even fewer of his critics have the faculties to dissect it. And that's cool, you know? Motherfucker's got to do his thing. But I think, really, the best most of us can really offer when trying to understand the story of Hour Hero Yes is "Oooh, that's very impressive", marvelling at the scale of the achievement (or at least ambition) while letting the structure slip by.

Well, there's that. We can also admit that it tends to sound pretty fucking good, too.

The Subtle Six are gearing up for the launch of their third album proper, exitingARM, as Dose One's fictional counterpart Yes faces off against the Venetian god-kings of masturbation in order to save his ailing rap career from the nine-headed Invoice Lord and discovers that potassium is the final ingredient needed to secure freedom from his vile past as a blood merchant*. They released a song from the album to Pitchfork, and I downloaded it and put it up on Megaupload in a pathetic attempt to make it look like I did more to secure the song than check the front page of one of the widest read music websites in the world.

Um.

...

...And here it is!

Unlikely Rock Shock It's good, and I'm sleepy and full of burgers. Write your own damn track description. Bonus points for the words "tripartient", "brooding" and "danceable".

Oh, and they also released a video on their Myspace, purporting to explain ExitingARM and show what is going on behind the scenes while they're recording it. And here it is:

Inside ExitingARM

Thanks, guys. That makes the whole thing much clearer.

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*probably.