{"id":616908,"date":"2026-05-01T08:38:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T08:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/616908\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T08:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T08:38:18","slug":"gobby-i-guess-bro-album-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/616908\/","title":{"rendered":"Gobby: i guess bro Album Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

NYC hermit Gobby<\/a> opens his new album i guess bro with a song called \u201cParty at My House,\u201d and at first glance it seems as much like a one-joke pony as the album\u2019s title. \u201cThere\u2019s a party at my house,\u201d he drawls in an utterly bored tone, sounding like the world\u2019s most blas\u00e9 host. But as the song goes on, it unmoors into druggier territory\u2014Goosebumps<\/a> string staccato, twee-pop bells, the urgent strumming of an acoustic guitar that sounds like it was barely tuned, let alone miked. If this is what a party sounds like, you have to break through a couple layers of abstraction to see the picture Gobby is trying to paint. And are those crickets? Not exactly the sound you\u2019d want to hear echoing back at you at your function.<\/p>\n

Welcome to the world of Gobby, who\u2019s consistently put out some of the strangest music of the legions of beatmakers turned solo auteurs that emerged from the blog-rap era. He made his name producing for NYC cool kids like Le1f<\/a> and Mykki Blanco<\/a> in the early 2010s, but the real meat of his catalog is his sprawling beat tapes. The 2014 album Wakng Thrst for Seeping Banhee<\/a> in particular is a deranged masterpiece of zombified, sleepwalking funk, honored with a five-star review from Tinymixtapes<\/a> and seemingly forgotten about since. His releases can be spotty just by virtue of being truly experimental\u2014he\u2019ll try anything once\u2014but they\u2019re consistently some of the wildest rides in the world of underground electronic music, and i guess bro is no exception.<\/p>\n

No score yet, be the first to add.<\/p>\n

The tender Auto-Tune on \u201cCountry Drill,\u201d in tandem with the listless vocal on \u201cParty at My House,\u201d might make you wonder if he hasn\u2019t hitched himself to post-Drain Gang developments in rap atmosphere, or the pop<\/a> miniaturists<\/a> who\u2019ve transmuted them into the experimental sphere. But there are also segments that go the opposite direction into hard-edged drum maximalism and clipped samples, club music for the deficient of attention span. At no point is his mind at rest, not least during a mid-album run of sub-one-minute songs that plays like a shroomed-out Abbey Road<\/a> medley\u2014including a bouquet of diva-moan samples called \u201cEpiffany\u201d that creates a sultry atmosphere for 56 seconds and dips out, or a circus-orchestra lark called \u201cSiri\u201d that seems to mock the pathetic condition of an artificial mind forced to perform.<\/p>\n

Reverb exists as a dull fishbowl clunk, the orchestral palette is the crudest MIDI, and the vocal processing is frequently disturbing, never more so than in \u201cDecline Recline,\u201d which plays like a conversation between a church mouse and a malevolent force haunting the building\u2019s walls. There\u2019s a track named after Oscar winner The Brutalist<\/a> that compresses 216 minutes of movie into an economical 1:18 data crunch; it\u2019s funny if meant as a film-nerd joke, less so if intended as a statement on the way artists\u2019 hard work is ground down into grist for the content mill. It\u2019s followed by two more tracks named after Adrien Brody vehicles, as if the album didn\u2019t already feel like flipping through channels until the static on the TV and in your mind are one and the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NYC hermit Gobby opens his new album i guess bro with a song called \u201cParty at My House,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[776,88,216,777],"class_list":["post-616908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-albums","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}