SALEM - Yes I Smoke Crack FLAC download

the best record of 2008 if not the decade.

Somewhere between a very degenerated Lil Wayne and a very deliquescent M83 comes Salem, a bunch of white trash midwest art students that actually live up to this (mega cult) record's title.At first i was quite unimpressed, seemed all a little overplayed and poseur to me, but after seeing these three playing live, i must admit that this is one of the most poignant, almost unbearable things i've witnessed on a stage.They can barely move, look terribly fragile and lost, and sound like they are trapped in their slowed-down, crack-meets-syrup postdrone mixture, which is as seducive and desperate and hypnotic as hell itself, carrying a snaky, livid, malefic energy (they try to play with satanic and witches symbols but seem themselves too weak and overwhelmed to properly handle it and end up quite pathetic, exhausted really).Kind of archetypal of post hipster white middle class America gone wrong, apparently washed-out by their own despair and post-cool demise, they really look and sound as they are announcing something to the world, and that something might not be very pleasant.Somehow their ruined messiah appearance could bring a comparison to Nirvana (another trio), but 20 years later, with the current state of the world and the USA, Salem are much closer to the sound and image of the apocalypse.Immensely sad, saddening, nauseous and freaky music.