Kanttila : My Nonsense 
1. The Crow's Feather
2. Gabriel's Dropout
3. Backyard
4. Lailaps Infinite
5. Matador!
6. B-Squad
7. Zero Singing Doves
8. Stride
9. Calamity Me
10. Jingo Girl
All songs written & performed by the Manimal
https://kanttila.bandcamp.com/album/my-nonsense So today on Remembrance Day, 100 years after the end of World War I we have a new album from Kanttila. The time had come to make my full on Rock album, but my music has always been full on Rock. However this time it is...two times the Rock? It's another set of My Nonsense.
After the failure to find direction with The Natural Order, an album that had 3-4 false starts as a Jangle set, Acoustic set or Goof Rock set, I found I needed to make a consistent album and really just Rock. I was burning to make a much better album and had my angsty BAND-MAID soundtracked drive that led me to writing the first 6 songs on this album in one go, along with some others I didn't use. The idea was simple, bring back my SG, the guitar I put so much in, and just make a SG on left, Tele on right, double tracked on both, Rock album. I always make Rock music but this time I wanted it to be more focused.
This is my first album to not have any Sonic noise, aside from a bit of accidental feedback before the solo in "Gabriel's Dropout" this set is void of any screaming feedback, analog delay sweeps and my normal tricks. I use my ebow twice and the tammy is broken out here and there, but aside from the acoustic in the first bit of "Backyard" (which I made off like the right channel me was playing the acoustic than dropped it for the Tele) it's all SG and Tele, Super Ang and the Stellacaster. Since The Natural Order was a jumbled mess of directions, with not terrible songs just terrible flow, I needed to make an album that worked together, even if it kind of fails in it's last act, like Post America also did.
"Zero Singing Doves" is this album's best song and one of my top from the year so far. I'm very proud of it! It came out of nowhere and just turned out perfect on my scale. I am also happy with "The Crow's Feather" and "Matador!". There aren't any terrible songs by my standards on here although "Calamity Me" is very clearly a filler song that's only purpose is to lead to "Jingo Girl", the natural finale song. Actually "Calamity Me" is really no good in terms of the vocals. I have been struggling with the last part of my album's forever. I start very strong but when it comes to the last week I get so rushed to want it done that the songs suffer. Post America had a brutal hit with "Last Chances Heroes", ruining what might of been my best album. The Natural Order had "Harumäki" which was almost good but ruined by my terrible vocals on that song.
I have been getting more tactical with my bass playing, I like to play bass it's fun and since it's my first instrument I'm not too bad at it, although I always played it like guitar. I feel like Andy Rourke really gave me a kick with his amazing basslines in the Smiths songs, that made me feel like...okay bass is vital and it's time to step it up. Before my basslines where often too quite to hear or just kind of there. I'm not coming up with amazing parts or anything, just trying to be a lil' more noticeable on the bass.
Lyrically there is a pretty evident theme, maybe it's evident I don't know. My lyrics are sometimes too rushed to be good, but I feel I have my moments and I've gotten better at making them feel like things only I could've written but not going overboard like I have in the past. When I look at some of my lyrics I wrote before Barry Goldman's World Tour it's truly amazing how terrible I was and how embarrassing I got. Barry Goldman's World Tour was my first album to finally shape my lyrics into something, and though I've had terrible missteps earlier this year on the awful album Ghosts Of Kaministiquia and some strangely horrific phrases on Skywalk, ever since I dropped the Barry Goldman name and went to the much better and way more fitting for myself Kanttila my expression has improved tons.
Post America was the major turning point for my music, and though The Natural Order didn't have album flow these are way better albums than say, Call Of Mugi or Homestyle. Though they might not have songs as good as "Coughing Up The Heel", "Barely Gold, Man" and "Pinstripe Kermit". When I listened to Haru to Shura the other night I was really taken aback how good it was and it made me think, I'm not making music that will ever be...anything more than silly basement Rock that can't connect or really do anything for anyone but myself. Haru's album felt important like it had a big statement and a powerful expression. Granted she has however many people working on that album and I'm just one guy who makes absolutely everything by myself, quick as possible, with no input or help unless it's a collab with Lego, but it makes me think...man I wish I could just do more than this. But this is literally the only thing I am able to do by myself. I just need to get better!
So this album is me doing what I do best really. This is my "big Rock" album that has no nonsense yet it still does have My Nonsense. Overall it's fine, it falters by the end but the first 7 songs are all strong.
Next up I want to do a Christmas EP, maybe 5-6 songs. Me and Lego have talked about a collab EP also, more laid back and looping like Lego's music is. So I can say, I'm fairy certain this one here is my last album of 2018, but you never know with me eh. If anyone has ever been interested in listening to my music I say this is the album to go to because it's better as a whole than my other albums. So that is all for this set, time for the next!
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