{"id":237,"date":"2004-09-25T22:30:26","date_gmt":"2004-09-26T05:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2023-06-24T00:55:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T07:55:34","slug":"naltrexone-forever-screaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/naltrexone-forever-screaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Naltrexone &#8211; &#8220;Forever Screaming&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"temp-gridblock-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"tmpl-text-2 boldgrid-section dynamic-gridblock\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\n<div class=\"col-md-1 col-sm-2 col-xs-6 col-lg-3\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-4 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 col-lg-9\">\n<h4 class=\"color1-color\" style=\"margin-top: 20px; border-width: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #cf2e2e;\">Naltrexone<\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Category<\/span>: Experimental<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Album<\/span>: <em>Forever Screaming<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tasmania\u2019s Naltrexone has self-released two CDs, small efforts, easily available free online, and I have been fortunate enough to have received a copy of the second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I will not describe the listening material of the CD, Forever Screaming, as \u201cgreat\u201d or \u201cenjoyable,\u201d but I think that the music does present some interesting points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Described by the band itself as an \u201cbemused contrivance,\u201d the point is made clear in saying that there is a \u201ccomplete lack of pleasure in the sound\u201d and that the goal \u201cwasn\u2019t attempting to make good music but to question the very assumption of what good music is.\u201d And I applaud the band for its effort to inject a personal meaning into its own music, to use music as a tool of self-discovery and understanding one\u2019s place in the writing process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The music itself is not great. It\u2019s comprised of loops, samples, vocals, and the occasional instrumentation, all mangled, stretched, compressed, and distorted out of shape. The assemblages are usually interestingly peppy and strangely enchanting, veering from a tone similar to that of the DJ-era electronica in the background of your average commercial to twitchy noise collages to spoken word over noise and light melodies. I found myself a bit detached but rather enjoying the product itself. While some tracks drone on with experimental touches, others stop long before their interest even reaches its peak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I think that the band may have sold itself short by saying that there is no pleasure in the sound. It\u2019s not your typical pleasure, but the construction of the songs and the elements chosen often delight in the simple and uncharacteristic ways they combine, even when the intention for them to isn\u2019t there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>from ReGen Magazine (~10\/2004)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Naltrexone Category: Experimental Album: Forever Screaming Tasmania\u2019s Naltrexone has self-released two CDs, small efforts, easily available free online, and I have been fortunate enough to have received a copy of the second. I will not describe the listening material of the CD, Forever Screaming, as \u201cgreat\u201d or \u201cenjoyable,\u201d but I think that the music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-regen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}