I want the record to sonically galvanize people. I knew I would look at who my guitar heroes were in art school, Mary Timony and Carrie Brownstein, and I drew a lot of influence from shoe-gaze and Britpop. I knew there would be lots of fuzz pedals. "My intention was to make 100 percent uncompromised art, using the currently least radio-friendly instrument, the guitar. "I wanted to make the small things sound big," he says. Working with producer Doug McKean, Way knew immediately what he wanted Hesitant Alien to sound like. Former My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way released his debut solo album, entitled Hesitant Alien, on September 30th 2014. And it’s great.Limited picture disc vinyl LP pressing. This is his Clark Kent or Peter Parker album, this is him without his costume on. This, then, is Way before he goes into the phonebox to change. My Chemical Romance had a knack of making wonderfully ambitious music that was built on their personalities, but which was then draped in superhero outfits. Instead it feels like someone being themselves. Though this record stands makes very little reference to Way’s past, it never feels like it’s trying to be something it’s not. Where so many people make mistakes in going solo is in trying to be something radically different from what they once were.
It’s wonderful, but far more experimental that Way might be expected to be. It’s like an unwelcome drunk crashing the party, before very quickly becoming the life and soul of the thing.
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It’s pretty enough, pensive even, and then from nowhere a giant synth arrives full of trills and peculiar flamboyance. Finally Gerard Way announces his return with a yowl, before getting into a didactic groove as the Bureau the opening song on his debut solo album Hesitant Alien gets into a. And then comes a beat that sounds built of stone: pumping, humping and hard as a chaos of noise circles behind it. It surfs along on a jaunty, echoey beat – like a military marching drum performing a tricksy little shuffle in a cavern – as Way’s psychedelic vocals soar over the top. A weird organ picks out loose notes, noodling. How’s It Going To Be is delightfully weird. Juarez is wild, throbbing and circling – a sense of release running throughout it. It may be the best song on Hesitant Alien in that there’s something pure to it, something naked but grand. Built on a simple, descending piano, it has some of the Way sassiness of old, while still retaining an emotional core. The growl of the guitars is lent pathos by wistful melody, Way both thoughtful and melancholy amid the maelstrom.īrother, a song written about Mikey Way – as Famous Last Words once was too – is the song that most obvious recalls My Chemical Romance but is still undeniably something new.
Drugstore Perfume, however, is the best example of that wall of noise aesthetic and slow groove.
The buzz and howl of Jesus And The Mary Chain is perhaps one clear one: No Shows might have spit and groove, but it is underpinned by a raw guitar Zero Zero is dominated by another pounding beat that bolts together a bedlam of feedback and noise. Advance publicity suggested this record borrowed from Britpop and grunge in equal measure and while both are certainly in abundance (notably on Get The Gang Together, which somehow recollects Blur and Super Furry Animals at the same time), there are perhaps more weighty influences. But for those looking for something to tie together all the songs on Hesitant Alien, there is one thing: fuzz. Bureau is just the first sign that he can make music that throbs and pulses, judders and swaggers without the need for an over-arching storyline or plot.
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