The Sound of Money Release ‘TWO: RHYME ON,’ a Joyfully Twisted Exorcism of the 70s
The Sound of Money, Munich’s gleefully obsessive pop exorcists, return with ‘TWO: RHYME ON,’ their new LP on BB*Island—a delirious, anagrammatic exorcism of the 70s.
Following 2017’s ‘MORE? WHY NOT!,’ a tribute to the 60s via scrambled album titles and scrambled minds, the group now applies the same chaotic logic to their favorite records from the decade of excess, paranoia, glitter, dread, and endless groove.
As with their debut, the band takes the titles of 12 canonical albums and reworks them into absurdist, dada-esque new ones. A standout: David Bowie’s ‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust’ and the ‘Spiders from Mars’ gets translated into ‘Dr. Dr. Themefart, Frustrating Himself, Posed as Gay Old Nazi SS’—equal parts juvenile joke, punk zine surrealism, and postmodern puzzle box…
The songs themselves are just as warped and referential as the concept suggests. You get everything from Parliament-on-cough-syrup funk to disco gospel dragged through a smoky cabaret to dub jazz that feels like it was composed on a melting Commodore 64. And yes, somehow they manage to condense the entire Bowie arc into a 3.5-minute bizarro-world suite played in reverse. It’s part homage, part piss-take, and entirely itself.
There’s no cynicism here.’ TWO: RHYME ON’ is a deeply nerdy love letter to the album as a format, to pop as a game of telephone, and to the 1970s as both cultural goldmine and hall of mirrors.
Check out the record over on Bandcamp and dive into the twin-video vortex of ‘Casino Gospel Disco’ and ‘Dr. Dr. Themefart…’ if you want to see just how weird the 70s can sound when viewed through a funhouse mirror made of cut-up letters and cracked magnetic tape.
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