Feed the Beast Album Review

As soon as I heard about Feed the Beast, debut solo foray of Motocade’s mouth, Eden Mulholland, I was eager to get my hands on it. There comes a time in every young slave to the wage’s life where you’re forced to listen to music you really wouldn’t if you had a choice. 

For me that time was my tenure as a customer service drone at a prominent fast food restaurant. During those dark times there were two tracks that shone through the pre-autotune sludge that was pop; Motocade’s Bomb Squad and My Friends.

For those of you, like me, who start the musical journey that is Feed the Beast, expecting Motocade, you’re in for a surprise. Feed the Beast couldn’t be further removed from Motocade’s signature hooky poppy rock sound.  What Mulholland has crafted is an experimental, multilayered aural masterpiece that defies genre. 

No two songs are the same in any sense. Each track appeals to a different sense of appreciation of musical aesthetics. The entire range of human emotion is touched upon over these twelve short tracks, illustrating the incredible talent of Mulholland.

Not immediately danceable in the Saturday night in town sense, these beautiful compositions would be the perfect soundtrack to a freestyle interpretive dance. People drunk in town on a Saturday probably wouldn’t get it anyway. There is great depth to this music, so many subtleties in the layers, so many feelings evoked.

Feed the Beast is available for download and streaming from Eden Mulholland’s Bandcamp (http://edenmulholland.bandcamp.com/).