Ill Lit - WACMusic
(Badman)
Many artists have tried to bring folk into the present by incorporating modern elements. Ill Lit do their best to try and bring it into at least the 1980s, but ultimately fail to create credible folk music, let alone a development thereof.
Album title WACMusic stands for "We Are Country Music," and despite the boombox cover and the two minute lo-fi electronic lead-in, this statement adequately reflects Ill Lit's intentions. Behind the facade of some discount electronics in the album's more pop songs, most of the album is the barest and gentlest strum. Perhaps that is all that is needed for country and folk music, but, unfortunately, Ill Lit seems to have the emotional depth of Jerry Springer's Final Thoughts, as all we get is a reaction to (or, worse, a mocking of) the freak show of life instead of any honest emotional account. "Whitewashing" starts off with the memorable but vapid and unsupported "I almost married your sister just so we could be closer." The song's not about anyone's sister, it seems, but rather about how many oxymoronic twists on language the band can come up with. I don't think there's any "ugly babe" of a sister at all. Other accounts of alien sightings and unemotional tales of stubbornness don't give the album any resonance, either. In the end, WACMusic is an album that is easy to listen to but fails to have any effect on the listener, which makes it a fairly poor country/folk album.
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