The Americanization of the Retro-Contemporary Skater, by Hootie the Sailor

The Americanization of the Retro-Contemporary Skater

by Hootie the Sailor

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The Owl / Morbid Beauty There is a hell of a lot going on with this album. Manic electronic, sound cut up, drone noise, samples, weird and twisty loops, tense times, totally ridiculous sections (start of 3, which then turns into nightmarish repetitions!), but then some quieter times like Pharisee, which musically could be on a dungeon synth record... Not sure how many dungeon synth records there are about skating, but, there should be more!

Anyway.
WEIRD! But, really interesting, ever changing and pretty damn unique.

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1.	Hymn for the Skater 04:25	buy track
2.	Gamer Rage 06:32	buy track
3.	Interpretive Pyromania 03:56	buy track
4.	Prophecy 01:56	buy track
5.	Combat Karl Marx Brothers Karamazov (feat. jobert & m a g g i e . w a v) 11:45	buy track
6.	Skater Angst - Skater Joy 05:14	buy track
7.	Pharisee 05:59	buy track
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10.	Regulations of the Retro-Contemporary Skater 13:24	buy track

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Hootie the Sailor - The Americanization of the Retro-Contemporary Skater

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What is the deal with these pineapples? Earlier this year, film buff and media contortionist Jared Tuinstra allowed us to publish his debut album Zwerk to confused but amused fanfare. His work is rooted deeply in the absurd and rides the line between hilarious and unlistenable. That isn't the route that he's taken here on his follow up, The Americanization of the Retro-Contemporary Skater. Instead of creating elaborate patience testers, Jared has made something more akin to a legitimate depiction of what it's like to go insane in the internet age, albeit from a far more wholesome angle.

Brimming with samples both recognizable and obscure, TAotRCS sees Hootie moving towards complex clouds of sound and original compositions while never sacrificing the initial draw to his art. Described as an audio-bible for those seeking righteousness within oneself, the textures can be haunting, pretty and at times downright deranged. Something we strive to see in artists that release with us is an internal revelation, to reflect their personalities with no shred of irony. And although this one could be considered just as baffling as Zwerk, it is undoubtably a zeroed in on his own sensibilities. Skater on. Skater on. Skater...on.

The Americanization of the Retro-Contemporary Skater was written and produced by Hootie the Sailor.
Recorded and mastered in the basement suite during the summer and fall of 2019.
Artwork by Hootie the Sailor & Andrew the Donkey.

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released June 16, 2020

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