Monday 21 March 2016

Vanessa Van Basten isn't related to Marco Van Basten

Vanessa Van Basten sounds Dutch, I haven't checked and I don't really care. She may or may not be related to the famous footballer, but I also don't care about checking that, either. She may or may not be one thing or another. I also thought that she was a classical singer - she is not. In fact listening to her/it/them makes me question the very fundamentals of my existence. On the 18th of February Mr. Fuzzgump added Vanessa Van Basten as a playlist on Spotify, he returned today to find the playlist, but he was baffled by how and why Vanessa taints his playlists. He decided to listen, expecting a light and airy fairy twinkly twangly light and feathery indie tingle wingle sound but was greeted with an unexpected dark and heavy fuzzy wuzzy doomy gloomy sound infused with a dissonant industrial sound that shocked and impressed Fuzzgump so much that he wanted me to share this with you: It's a song by Vanessa Van Basten. The riffs are fuzzy. The artwork is fuzzy in a different way - obscure, indistinct, vague, absurd and surreal in a very pleasing way. 

Note: Fuzzgump doesn't care for biography or history or truth. The only truth is in the fuzz, the fuzz is coats world with its suffocating essence. 



The First Fuzzgump

The first of Mr. Fuzzgump's fuzzy funderments. All that dwells here will be fuzzy, distorted, hazy, crazy, lazy, lo-fi, downright shady, blurred, obscured, disturbed, contorted, confused, muddled, befuddled, obscene, extreme. Fuzz is love, fuzz is life - fuzz obscures the sharp realities of high definition existence I am Mr. Fuzzgump's spokesman: Fuzz has fuzzed his ability to speak...and type. The band above are Fuzz, a side-project of Ty Segall who I thought had died but realised I was mixing him up with Jay Reatard. He's quite fuzzy too. Fuzz is pretty generic every day fuzz, sort of lazy and nasally but fun.