Seeing Sounds is the 3rd album from the monstrous beasts that call themselves N.E.R.D (No-One Ever Really Dies). Their sound is revolutionary, their talent is incomparable and their fan base reports directly to me because I am the number one. Below is a track by track analysis album.
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Time For Some Action
A little garage band funk paired with whispered/low key vocals and some psychedelic sound effects, nice way to jump start the album.
Everyone Nose
Their smash hit single. Beautifully arranged with drums, guitars, horns, scratching, and s/f/x. Dedicated to all the coke whores of the world—keep your nose clean.
Windows
A Rolling Stone-esque rock ballad, meant to make the ladies swoon. Pharrell stares into a beautiful woman’s eyes taking a glimpse at her soul.
Anti-Matter
This track is grungy with a hard caustic edge. A balanced mix of a catchy hip-hop hook and raw rock and roll production. This dis-track is dedicated to all of the jackasses of the world.
Spaz
This track had Atlanta losing their collective minds at the Glow In The Dark Tour last month. This one gets a mosh pit seal of approval—spaz if you want to.
Yeah You
Ever had a bad experience with a stalker—Pharrell has. This funky track chronicles a brief narrative of his experience with a girl who wouldn’t give up.
Sooner or Later
I like this one best because I can relate to it, the vocal arrangement is dope, and it puts me in the mind of classic N.E.R.D tracks like Provider and Maybe.
Happy
This track is rocky/edgy (I’m coining the phrase cliff-like defined as a track that has an edgy rock sound). This one isn’t my favorite, there’s nothing wrong with it but it doesn’t move me.
Kill Joy
I so that all to familiar She Wants To Move shimmy when I listen to this track for some reason. I like it, it’s energetic and wild.
Love Bomb
*sings* “Sitting here in this white padded room, imagining I’m a meteor flying out through the distant space, how’d this tiny spec called Earth destroy tomorrow, so capable of so many things, why make light taking planes, but I believe that when you loose your route just use the sunlight, it can be your guide, no more political dreams, not another excuse, don’t need another love song, we a love bomb, to just blow us away, to freaking blow all the lights out, to turn the night to day, hear it from miles away, a chance to make it right now, fuck what the government says, gotta saves some lives now, is that okkkaaayyy?”
I sing because I’m passionate about this track. It knocked me out of my chair, I instantly learned the lyrics. I have a crazy concept for this video. I think this my favorite track on the album.
You Know What
Blues, R&B, Rock, Jazz, and Hip-Hop all rolled into zesty little track with another catchy hook. Sincere thumbs up.
Laugh About It
Another wild one. This track is kind like a mix between Lapdance, Provider—but in brand new kind of way. It puts me in an optimistic mindset cause no matter what happens later on in life you’ll look back on these times and laugh about them.
Grade: A