With the eighteen tracks of this album (only five of which run over two minutes long), LOLI RIPE churns out a manic mix of breaks, noise, heavily altered pop samples, and signal degradation, zipping through pounding percussive loops while higher-register incidents flicker past in swift rotation, on into fine-ground audio disintegration, drill-beats, and other uneasy listening. Most of the time, the adapted samples are too obscured by their filtering and other treatments to recognize what the joke is, but the track titles spot them out, with names like “I Fucked Up ;_;“, “I Want You To Relax Your Anus“, and “Haha! Butts :)“ giving more identifiable character to the album than the disparate nature of the songs themselves.
When focused on just diving into the noise, the album leans into some surprisingly nuanced sounds, but the broad majority of it seems to try to keep from taking itself too seriously, by way of anime samples, blasts of static, and obnoxious techno-mocking excess. Alternately frantic and drudgy, it ends up being one of the lower points in LOLI RIPE’s catalog due to bloat, more than anything else.
Scrambled Brains 