Analyzing the differences between Death Grips and Kero Kero Bonito

As mentioned on my Research page you can see a written statement within "Why there needs to be challenging and boundary pushing Music" where I affirm my belief that "my music taste is to some very broad as I don't restrict myself to any Genre but instead I just enjoy (in my opinion) good Music.", this is one of those examples. Despite being in decidedly different extremities of the Music spectrum I would like to demonstrate and evaluate the drastic stylistic and technical characteristic between the Hyper, Electropop (at least their older materiel) London based group Kero Kero Bonito in contrast to the Experimental Hip-Hop trio Death Grips. To start off with, the result of Death Grips being boundary pushing Experimental type music means the structure of a lot of their songs is going to be unpredictable and rather esoteric in its approach. Kero Kero Bonito on the other hand due to it being pop music the structure is more in the tradition of regular mainstream music. In Death Grips's music, they feature some bizarre samples in order to have an energetic, abrasive feel such as sampling the Vancouver Sky Train and Printers. Kero Kero Bonito sample retro Video Games that gives a nostalgic innocence in its music but with an added cool synth based vibe. Furthermore, Death Grips's vocals are known for it's dark, cryptic and incredibly graphic visions of the front man MC Ride whereas Kero Kero Bonito is rather the anthesis of the style covering humble topics such as having a party and waking up in the morning. Both bands have continually pushed forward their styles and have exercised different new ways to express themselves. One such example is Kero Kero Bonito's transition from their fresh sweetly naive Electropop style into a more melancholy fulled abrasive Indie Rock music.

The two pieces of music I would like to compare are Satan in the Wait by Daughters and To Cure a Weakling Child by Aphex Twin.

Both songs are from entirely different genres but both use interesting technical details I would like to address. To Cure a Weakling Child by Aphex Twin sample in the beginning of the song is actually Richard D. James's voice but manipulated and edited to sound like a young child. The entire album it is on (the Richard D. James album) was composed on an Apple Macintosh which in a historic point of view is rather impressive as the production sounds to this day is fresh and contrary to most music being released.

Satan in the Wait by Daughters has a very dreary, dark yet melodic quality further made melodic by an added piano solo creating an ominous hysteria. The seven minute long pieces tests the audience's patience, very suiting when you take in the album is called 'You Won't Get What You Want' and also has a much more ambiguous feel compared to their past material which boosts the juxtaposition of beauty and darkness a area I would appraise they wanted to explore.

To Cure a Weakling Child may also have a hue of hidden sorrow, although this is speculation on my part it could be about his dead brother by cause of him stating he had a stillborn older brother called Richard so he feels deep shame that he has stolen his identity and thats what the album and song explores in a silence speaks thousand words type way.