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Album Review: Zero Day

Treat time my friends. While I mostly stick to my movie and TV show guns, I am also a true music lover. I listen to a bit of every genre and love new music. After watching the documentary Nerdcore Rising, I was turned on to the nerdcore rapper MC Frontalot. I highly recommend you watch Nerdcore Rising. It is truly a great look behind the scenes of an indie band, and an even better look at the immensely nerdy world of MC Frontalot.

Being a fan for close to a year now, I was happy to hear a new album was in the works. Zero Day is set to release April 6^th, and for those who preorder it can also download it immediately at http://frontalot.com/index.php/?page=cd . With my copy soon to be in the mail and my digital download firmly on my hard drive, I am here to offer my take on Front’s newest work.

Zero Day is more solid of an album than any of Frontalot’s past work. Being a fan of rap or not, you are bound to enjoy this CD. Stand out tracks such as Jacquelyn Hyde, First World Problem, Spoiler Alert, and Better at Rapping really show Frontalot’s skill. Not only has his rapping improved greatly, but also his lyrical ability has show improvement. Also on Zero Day are a couple of LOL-worthy skits, notably one with John Hodgman of Apple commercial fame. These are seriously funny skits even after many plays.

Zero Day has its fair share of guests in and out of the nerdcore community as well. Nerdcore mainstays such as Schaffer the Darklord, YTCracker, and Beefy show up and make an impact. Also non nerdcore guests Ken Flagg, Sara Benincasa, Jane Silence, and Molly Hager add unique touches to the album.

MC Frontalot has made an amazingly enjoyable album with major playback and not a single must skip track. This is Frontalot at his best and this sets the bar for all nerdcore. I look forward to April 6^th and I highly recommend buying the CD as soon as possible. If Nerdy is cool (and it is) that easily makes MC Frontalot the Nerdbassador to the non-nerd world.

Post Oscars

The Oscars are done and the results are in. It is now time to recap and see how I did. I will only be talking about the ones that I got wrong. Over all, out of my predictions I was twelve for twenty. With the ones that were guesses and the ones that were my favorites out of the way, there were a few surprises.

Best Costume Design – They say never to vote against a period piece for a reason my friends.

Best Documentary – Well this one was a guess out of left field. Out of this list I had only saw one of the nominees.

Best Film Editing – Hurt locker won this and while I wanted District 9 to win, I would have not picked Hurt locker over Avatar.

Music (Original Score) – Up won this and I can’t argue really. It was a toss up at best.

Sound Editing – Hurt locker won again. Oscar politics at play for most of these toss ups.

Sound Mixing - Hurt lock in another toss up.

Adapted screen play –Precious won this and I disagree 100%. Up in the air was a much better screen play. This was a shocker to me.

Original Screenplay – Hurt lock won to my surprise. This one I disagree with completely as well. Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds not winning this was a major disservice to Tarantino. This one left a bad taste in my mouth. A war movie about a bomb squad member who deals with his life in Iraq verses a war movie that rewrites history with Jewish soldiers killing Nazis, including Hitler himself. Which sounds more original to you?

Well there you go. With a 60% I am feeling good, yet look to next year’s show to try and bump up my numbers.

Also I have gotten my first request for a review. I will be sure to get to that after my next review, which is going to be Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. If any of my readers have suggestion for me you can drop be a line on my facebook page (http://bit.ly/9vVPCt), follow me @BlindReviewer on Twitter, or email me at theblindreviewer@gmail.com.