Sound & Fury

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I went into this without any knowledge or expectations and my eyes were glued to the screen. The creators were able to meld together various types of animation and stories into one well-done cohesive whole.

It's a crazy feast for the eyes and ears. I was blown away for the whole show. The music is like grunge country blues and the animation is mesmerizing.

I was entertained, but that is all. Artist was formerly unknown to me. Music was okay. Anime was okay, though I would have preferred more unified look and feel rather than collaboration. Completely okay, but nothing spectacular.

It kicks off with the most graphic, revolting, needless violence, ending human lives for pure profit and quite frankly death itself, and progresses with both those rising up against it and those just trying to live their lives. Two intermediate videoclips offer a more laid back sound and view of a dystopian future, but the rest are all full throttle overdriven country rock'n'roll songs with both tragic and heroic depictions of graphic violence, lost love, hatred, oppression, and revolution in different styles of animation and video footage. A good watch.

Japanese Anime + scuzzy rock music by Sturgill. Love the idea behind this and the visuals are great and vary from song to song. Basically a 40 minute music video. Does kinda feel like the animation doesn't coincide with the music but still very entertaining and the art direction is on point. Think the Black Keys scoring a samurai western apocalypse short film.

Don't look for a linear story or homogenous style here; it's more about impressions, themes, and the mesh of atmospheric music with dynamic animation. expect an experience, but don't expect a one-foot-in-front-of-the-other narrative. also, watch through the credits. they're not at the end.

Oh boy, where do I begin? Artsy smash up of things that just don't resonate together. At first an anime revenge-story that for some reason has some awful country music on the background. I kept thinking: do I have wrong audio source chosen or why this seems so immersion breakingly bad. However this, uh what ever this is, turned into a dancing video in middle of the most interesting part, where the chosen movements highlighted 3D models lackcluster parts and then out of nowhere it becomes a japanese live action flick with absolutely nothing interesting happening. It all went even more downhill from there...

For starters I had never really heard of Sturgill Simpson nor his music. What an introduction! The feel of this definitely a callback to Heavy Metal. It seemed a little hard to follow until the end. Once you've finished it it all fits together. I've since watched it several times since the first and it doesn't get boring. There is so much going on i find new things I missed.

I think it was a smart way to change his sound and deliver some much needed political music. This era doesn't really embrace it. The movie def lead me to listening a SS album. Animation was cool, story was familiar. I was entertained and loved the album