A couple of weeks ago, an album was mailed to this office, with the clear intention for The Herald to review the album. I attempted to listen to this with an open mind, which was difficult because the band also sent us a list of previous reviews from other college newspapers that were overwhelmingly negative. 

Clearly this band wants me to give them a bad review, so congratulations to them: their plan worked. 

With that being said, I definitely have some thoughts (mostly negative ones) about “A Whole New Way of Makin’ It Happen” by Caeser Pink and the Imperial Orgy.

To put things mildly, this album made me upset that God didn’t make me deaf. Everything that could have made this album good is noticeably absent. The Imperial Orgy has clearly made their music with the intent of being the most anti-pop, counterculture music around, but forgot to make the music good to balance it all out. 

It all started with the opening track “The Invitation,” which is your standard album intro. Nothing really to say there but the next track, “Tropics of Capricorn” is completely out of time. 

I kid you not, not one of the instruments or vocals is following any sort of tempo. And it’s not in some art-rock way where “it’s supposed to sound like that bro, you just don’t understand music bro,” way either. Caeser Pink genuinely just could not find the beat. 

The next few songs weren’t much better, although I’ll admit there were a couple of songs that showed some promise. 

The third track, “Backwoods Soulshaker,” was a decent rock song. However, I’m willing to bet $10 that there’s some members of Caeser Pink that are big fans of The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, because this song and some of the others sound like the Temu versions of that band. 

This album is also affected by the near constant presence of someone just spamming every sound on the soundboard that they could find. It’s incredibly distracting from the actual music and detracts from the listening experience immensely. 

Is there anything good about this album? Well, all I have to say is that Caeser Pink and the Imperial Orgy is a pretty dope band name. They can have one point for that. 

Official Score: 1/10

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