If you’re ever amongst a group of people with different tastes in music and freeze when you’re given the chance to play a song, your safest bet
is to put on Girl Talk. To add to his collection of four other LPs, Girl Talk released his newest album entitled All Day on November 15.
Pinned with genres such as mashup, dance, experimental, electronic, and plunderphonics, Girl Talk is a real crowd pleaser. By taking samples from a multitude of songs across the decades, Girl Talk syncs rhythms, beats, and lyrics to create a collaboration of music that you never thought would flow together. An excellent example of this ingenious harmony comes through in a song from the new album called “Jump off Stage,” in which Girl Talk mixes Radiohead’s “Creep” with Wu-Tang Clan’s “Shimmy Shimmy Ya.”
Don’t think for a second that his albums are just evidence of a talented DJ, as Gregg Michael Gillis, the real name behind the artist known as Girl Talk, makes logical connections between the songs he collaborates. In a song called “Triple Double,” Girl Talk creatively layers “1901” by Pheonix with Ludacris’s “How Low” to assimilate going downwards.
All Day introduces recently popular singles from artists such as Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, and Lil Wayne, while reminiscing in the nostalgia of artists like Cyndi Lauper, Black Sabbath, and Skee-lo.
It’s easy to get lost in this album, because it’s meant to be listened to as a whole, though the songs can be individually broken up. Girl Talk hits the mark with people of all musical backgrounds to incorporate pop, hip hop, rock, indie, rap, and other genres within the 372 samples united in All Day. This album is a great way to keep the party going.
All Day is available for free download off of his record label’s website at www.Illegal-Art.net.