3/5/2023 0 Comments James ferraro full discography![]() Even his softer, more accessible recordings - Heaven's Gate's New Agey drone (named after a famous suicide cult) the bluesy, keening expanses of 'Last American Hero' - are accompanied by words and artwork that add subtle, biting commentary. The thrashy, helium-voiced pop-punk of last year's Night Dolls With Hairspray, meanwhile, stretched teen movie sexualisation to quite horrifying extremes: 'Leather High School's principal "wearing panties under his suit", the antihero of 'Killer Nerd' undergoing a Hulk-style transformation into school massacre monster. The sun-soaked guitar haze of 2009's Edward Flex Presents: Do You Believe In Hawaii? was repeatedly interrupted by the barely human grunts of swollen, iron-pumping gym gargoyles, burnt lobster-pink and reeking of anabolics. He's fond of distending snapshots of the modern world outward into vastly exaggerated, grotesque versions of reality, and in doing so laying bare the more disturbing consequences of late-period (and especially US model) capitalism. Although in interviews Ferraro typically conducts himself with a straight face his material on the whole, which disguises ambivalence as unfettered celebration, paints him as something of a provocateur. That said, despite its apparent surface differences, Far Side Virtual remains very much au fait with the rest of his output. It would appear that in his time off from his busy release schedule, Ferraro has locked himself in his room, bought himself a laptop, doused himself in energy drinks and wholly rewired his approach to recording. ![]() It's all angles and glimmering surfaces, each element carefully isolated from everything else with cocaine-sharp lucidity. Where almost everything he's released up until now has been written and recorded largely with guitar, voice and beaten up boomboxes, and has made a distinct point of its ultra-muggy fidelity, Far Side Virtual arrives to the listener's ear in almost painfully high definition. In terms of sound, though, his latest full length offers a few clues as to the reason for its long gestation. That we've heard nothing in 2011 from the former Skater until now (save a recent teaser EP, Condo Pets), then, comes as something of a break from typical form. Up until this year he's been frighteningly prolific, amassing a labyrinthine back catalogue of limited CDRs, cassettes and vinyl LPs, under a whole range of pseudonyms. Sifting through James Ferraro's vast discography can be an exhausting task.
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