Billiam Animation Cel LP
In a sea of singles, splits, and EPs, Animation Cel marks BILLIAM’s second LP. This prolific bedroom musician (who has maybe outgrown that label?) does not disappoint fans, with sixteen tracks of buzz, synth-wobble, and screech. In large font, the inner sleeve reads “Autismcore / Billiamwave LP#2”—so if we were lacking a genre handle, we now have two, straight from the horse’s tongue-in-cheek mouth. I find some of my favorite moments in this album between bass and synth lines, with little guitar fills, like on “Protect the Emerald,” or on the sparse choruses of “Matinee Show” and “My Metronome,” the latter of which hosts a killer synth line: droning, dizzying, perfect. The whole album is inherently lo-fi, yet so many flourishes are packed into these short songs that they sound full, achieving a definitive economy. This album is fun, irreverent, in-your-face and by your side…it is also selling very fast, get yours now.