#jealous yellow

[dustedmagazine]

Jealous Yellow — Czech Vampires (Erste Theke Tonträger)

Jealous Yellow’s Benjamin Rea wrote Czech Vampires while holed up with COVID in a hipster neighborhood in Prague mid-tour. Imagine that, a young man alone, worried about money and how to get home, sick and hallucinating, unsupported by friends or family, putting the whole experience to music that is just as feverish, frightened and claustrophobic as the situation he found himself in.

The album hangs loosely on a conceptual framework involving illness and vampires, with voices speaking in Czech drifting through between tuneful punk songs, wavery new wave reveries and lurching, dopplering experiments in electronic sound. At its most accessible, the music sounds like early GBV (also concerned with vampires but on Titus) or the hammering, chiming post-punk anarchy of Deeper. Yet it’s always falling apart, always melting down to essentials, calling to mind the pastiche electronic, proto-hip hop of Beck’s Mellow Gold or the no wave stews of mid-period Liars.

All of which is to say, there are some damned good songs on here, however interspersed with unintelligible intervals. Take for example, “Polygraph,” which flares in buoyant melody, surging with keyboard daydreams, while punching the time with rigid bass and drums. Rea chants disconsolately, obliquely, thoughts centered (possibly?) on the mind/body problem. His lyrics are hard to parse. He likes to rhyme words with no obvious connection. “Hard to say/Either way/mouth talking/mind separate,” he muses in an opening salvo, the logic of nightmares holding his thoughts together, but barely. “Sweat Out Yr Good Clothes” is another relative banger, swaying pendulously on an iterative riff. It has the ease and flourish of 1980s New Romantic music, the trebly bass-driven agitation of Devo.

More propulsive tracks put the bass way forward, a la thunderous “Perms for Pearl” or driving “Dirty Hand.” In this latter track, deadpanned chants finish with electro-shocked yelps, slick little melody flourishes run into thumping machinery. A theatrical voice seesaws through phrases, as the keyboards cavort in somersaults. “Dirty hands, eew” says someone and the track ends just like that.

Elsewhere the crabbed claustrophobia of communicable illness comes through in all or mostly instrumental interludes. In “Baker’s Dozen,” blotty synths and altered voices runs a click track gauntlet. It’s dance-y but dissolving as you watch. The title track blasts woozy, tone-shifting synths, putting big blotches of silence between them. It lurches forwards like a horror movie monster, awkward but full of threat. A miasma of illness envelopes the cut, as Rea recounts the symptoms, “Belly sick, licked, embrace the excrement.”

Czech Vampires is absolutely not one of those albums where every track is gold. Always messy, febrile and exciting, it has its moments. These 14 songs run through disorienting landscapes and only sporadically achieve clarity. In short, there’s a lot to get through, not all of it great, but the high points make it worthwhile.

Jennifer Kelly

[zarla-s]

So do you ship all of the adds and spamton all together or just spam with one of the adds at a time?

Kind of both? I do have some little comics I haven't colored where he flirts with all of them at once but I also like him with them one on one! There are so many opportunities... so many things to explore...

In the meantime there's this, haha.

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[itsdefinitely]

may i request richie and his little brother daniel? bonus points if richie is jealous of daniel's cool anime superpowers

brothers!!

[createandconstruct]

Toshinori and Inko finding out their pregnant a year into marriage and just sitting staring at the test like...oh. This was not exactly in the plan...nor did they even think it was possible??

They tell Izuku first of course and when they do he actually thinks they're kidding! Haha! That's actually...pretty funny, guys...uhhh...why do you both look so serious.......oh, oh shit. OH. All Might and Mom are having a kid? He's going to be a brother? In his twenties??? HUH?

Cut to nine months later and Izuku's holding his little sister, Toshinori beside him, arm around his shoulder, as Inko watches on with love and pride, because their family feels even more complete than it was before.

[thisisaname-whatahappyname]

LMAOOO

[cutter-kirby]

fiddauthor shippers I think you would adore blindfaith

evidence:

like dudes who give up everything to help some guy (who is accompanied by a little yellow entity) with a mission they don’t fully understand

both are so convinced they can undoom their buddy from the narrative but in doing so seal their own fate or whatever

[quackkaz]

Janus : Any suggestions for the weekend?

Roman : Take me to an art museum and make out with me.

Janus : Can't touch the masterpieces.

Virgil : *yelling from the other room* Will you two stop!?

[yellow-artz]

🪡 Most normal female friendship

[radioroxx]

Do you know what'd be extra funny though?

If human Clover *was* already red/green colorblind, so Ceroba preparing up the courage ti finally have the 'colour talk', preparing them to be forced learn colours at age six, only for them to be like 'yeah?? I thought thats's what they looked like for everyone?'

EHEHHEEHEHEHEE HELP THATS SILLY

on one hand i think she would be relieved she wouldnt have to go through all the colours for them (that she was forced to learn….) but at the same time disappointed in the sense of. hey. how come i had to go through all that and you didnt??? what

(kanako would be jealous as well ofc NFKF)

[aleespace]

I will take those Green/Blue crumbs thank you very much

[bruce-boards]

Scone plushie gifs because the lack of Scone content on this site is appalling and must be fixed immediately

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[pankomako]

with suits like those they may as well be hosting a TV game show

[stevenblueniverse]

Hopefully, in a couple of weeks, I will start on making a yellow mural like the blue one I did! I will document each day here. Maybe I'll also do white one day, too (I'm not sure about pink since the wall she can hypothetically go on is already being used for something, but we'll see)

[superbattrash]

My old man friend smiled, waved AND said hi today 😭 And he was wearing the sickest sneaks, I was so tempted to turn around and follow his route just to ask him where he got them

[smithrowed]