‘Eat Your Friends’ is about as odd and wonderful an album as the name suggests. The sonic overload that Rose Dees brings with her electro house record is enough to jolt you to life even on the most sullen of days. It’s futuristic, fantastical, with a host of sci-fi all scattered around. It’s also an album that isn’t afraid to be itself, explicit and assured in its topics from back to front. Written from the vantage point of a fictitious alien character who Rose uses as a projection of herself, ‘Eat Your Friends’ is simultaneously removed yet intimate, strange yet endearing, and altogether audacious.
The songs can be jarring, overwhelming, and loaded with sounds that you might not be normally accustomed to. It’s an assault on the senses at times, barraging you with a flutter of futuristic glitch inspired sounds that move the arrangement from a slightly more traditional techno house to a hard hitting drum and bass or dubstep style. Considering Rose draws a lot of inspiration from artists like Deadmau5 and Skrillex, that’s probably par for the course.
What you can expect from Eat Your Friends is nothing short of excitement and enthrallment. Explicit and unabashed, the entire record doesn’t hold its punches either in lyricism or in arrangement. It’s a very raw form of expression, that doesn’t bore for a minute as the styles shift from song to song. Particular highlights came from me in ‘Inside’ and the frenzied progressive electro amazement that was ‘K4se This Joint’.
Expect the unexpected, and be ready for a whole lot more.