furious focus by crazygoji

furious focus is a fucked-up album of horrible music.

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Dearest Sir,

Your kind correspondence speaks volumes unheard to the quiet throes of my heart. It has been a long summer, the days permeated by ceaselessly searing sun and cacophonous croaks of cicadas, and the nights broken up only by the screaming sirens of law enforcement pursuing me at unbelievably high speeds. In actuality, the fuzz has been on my tail for about three months straight, but I keep urging myself forward, desperate for escape – a mental fortitude granted to me expressly by crazygoji’s new project, furious focus.

This album, much like myself in my current state, truly never lets off the gas for a second. The instant loud, disorienting syncopation of smokey the bear meets pyro knocks you off your feet from the very beginning, giving you a clear idea of how the next half hour is going to treat you, followed by water waste’s fake-out intro leading into a warped but enthralling second half. Every track is extremely evocative – regal and illegal feels like a mad pursuit by an evil wizard of some kind, and its canyons almost feels like a scene from some demented nightclub. The drums on this project often take center stage, notably on football song, conversion and defeat me dude where relentless crashes and bitcrushed snares at what seems like 6,000 bpm move the project forward, and the juxtaposition of the blast-beat rock A side against the more powerful, industrial B side provides an interesting yet thematically consistent turn of events that keeps everything interesting. It’s not until the very end that we earn a reprieve from the madness, and what a reprieve it is! wishful thinking’s gorgeous detuned piano, quiet drums & haunting vocals provide a complete change of pace, and the album slows to a crawl in its final moments.

Dearest Archibald, I do have to run, as the sirens are getting louder and it’s far too troublesome to write with a big quill while trying to drive a motorcycle. I trust you will prevail through these romantic new times as I have, with a newfound focus… furiously.

Warmest regards,
Sir Gant of Calo XVIII

Tracklist

1.	smokey the bear meets pyro	2:08

2.	water waste	1:22

3.	regal and illegal	2:18

4.	football song	1:54

5.	nothing	1:46

6.	they pinch back	1:46

7.	echolocation	2:01

8.	its canyons	2:03

9.	conversion	1:55

10.	it can't be this hard forever, right	2:20

11.	metal pizza mod	2:27

12.	dufresne casual pts. 1 and 2	2:19

13.	defeat me dude	2:26

14.	wishful thinking	2:46

Credits

released September 5, 2024

crazygoji.bandcamp.com

written, produced and performed by crazygoji in February 2024
drums on track 14 performed by jaxcheese in March 2024
mastered by TJ Lipple in July 2024

this album is inspired by noise rock, and the goal during its writing was to aim to be as demented as possible, or aiming to portray spooky occult stuff in a light that it wouldn't normally be portrayed (with a certain sadness sometimes). I'd done more aggressive side As to a couple albums, but this was an attempt at making one that is that way the whole time through, and was compelling enough for me. it's hard for me to write angry, dissonant music as it's not what I normally shoot for as I'm writing. the tracklist reflects the order the songs were made

the first track was a warm up (the name illustrates the rage smokey the bear would have meeting a pyromaniac face to face), water waste was another warm up, regal and illegal was supposed to start evil in a cutesy way, and progresses (in a natural way). football song is the cure to that disease and is lighter hearted, nothing was an attempt at not being musical in the way I normally aim for (something soulless) and they pinch back is based on Rated X by Miles Davis. echolocation is essentially an exercise in 5/4 groove, is supposed to be like a subterranean bat cave, and is based on an old song I did in 2020. its canyons is partially where the album title came from, as it's like trying to focus during strenuous or urgent activities, and it's one of the more optimistic tracks.

conversion is an attempt at a song idea I'd tried twice before, but I think it was more successful here. it can't be this hard forever, right was an attempt at making something electronic that's as heavy as Fault and Fracture by Converge. metal pizza mod is more minimalistic musically and is inspired by long periods of psychosis. dufresne casual makes use of tone clusters, defeat me dude is trying to make a more straightforward song sound demented in some way, and the final track is inspired by Auto-Mobile by the band Duster.

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