hard bop (or how i started hating myself), by april the cruelest

hard bop (or how i started hating myself) by april the cruelest, released 01 July 2022 1. FROM BLUES? 2. HARD BOP 3. BRUTALISM 4. LOCUSTA 5. NERO 6. ARCHITECTURE OF DOOM 7. HELIX 8. A TERROR hard bop (or how i started hating myself) is the debut album by the Barcelona based composer and musicologist Fernando "Acero" Rodríguez García (aka april the cruelest). The album establishes a metaphor of the oppression and disorientation of the XXth century individuals through complex collages that blend the history of black be bop musicians with T. S. Eliot's poetry and references to music, poetry, architecture, history and art. The cryptic lyrics and concepts of self-hate and self-doubt are completed by an elaborate and deep sound which finds bridges between post-hardcore and post-industrial, blending the aesthetics of trip-hop or reggaeton with harsh post-metal passages or ambient inspired structures.