DroneLoaf, by Whettman Chelmets

DroneLoaf

by Whettman Chelmets

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moduS ponY Great concept and execution. Love the cover art also. I hear "(something) Susanna" instead of "Atom Bomb" in the last track Favorite track: You Took the Words Like Atom Bombs.

SELVEDGE There's nothing I love more than irreverent reverence. The wild idea executed with love and sincerity. DroneLoaf marries drone and experimental noisemaking with Meatloaf, but there's nothing sarcastic or removed about the project. Brilliant. Favorite track: You Took the Words Like Atom Bombs.

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1.	A Band of Angels Wrapped Up in My Heart 10:26	buy track
2.	For Crying Out Loud 10:29	buy track
3.	You Took the Words Like Atom Bombs 11:03	buy track

about

DroneLoaf began as a joke tweet in the middle of September, 2021, where I said my next album was either going to be a 40 minute drone or a collection of Meatloaf covers. The crowd (of 85 likes or whatever it was) liked it. The prevailing idea was to do both, and the more I thought about it, the more it sounded like a wonderful idea.

I already knew I was going to cover "For Crying Out Loud". I love this track so much. It's a perfect album closer to A Bat Out of Hell, with multiple false endings and some of the dirtiest lyrics from Jim Steinman. The trouble is, beyond screaming in my car, I'm not a great singer. But I think a good take was found in making the lyrics part of the overall flow of the music, and just this wave of distorted sound that lifts the whole thing up for like 10 minutes. You can tell Low's latest album just came out, as that distorted influence kinda spills over all of this.

The fruit of the project was started from "A Band of Angels Wrapped Up in My Heart", a lyric from "Heaven Can Wait". Don't tell anybody, but the track is built on the first 4 bars of the chorus paulstretched and converted to midi clips to trigger various instruments that creates this wonderful, joyous choir that lifts the listener up to higher and higher realms. Or as high as Meatloaf tracks can, anyway.

"You Took the Words Like Atom Bombs" is a play on Steve Reich-like phase loop experiments and a recent release Bill Orcutt did with a Joey Ramone sample:

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The title comes from what I heard in the 10 minute hypnotic loop.

This was all recorded in a week, but with a sincere love for the source material. I remember my dad had a copy of Bat Out of Hell on cassette that he played over and over again one summer when I was a teenager going to visit him in Arizona. He loved singing, and thought he was half-way decent at it. It's where I got this joy of just harmonizing in a car with the music you listen to. I always wish I could sing better, but I understand the joy that comes from it, and some of my most joyous moments come from singing Meatloaf and Jim Steinman tracks.

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released September 28, 2021

Recorded the week of September 16 to September 22, 2021. Mastered September 22, 2021 in the living room while my wife watched What We Do in the Shadows

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