Whole Wheat Bread - The Hearts of Hoodlums [Album]

Fighting Records

February 27, 2009, 10:26 AM

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Each time I listen to Whole Wheat Bread, there is a complete shift in my opinion of them. I go from really being very annoyed by them to quite liking them and back again with each listen.


They use a rather familiar mix of rock and rap with a twist of punk in there to add to the flavour. They’re like two electromagnets, one containing rock music and the other containing rap music, with an alternating current of punk that keeps switching the polarities of the magnets so that one minute they are stuck firmly together creating a good mix of sound, then the next minute the polarities change and the magnets fly apart, slightly injuring passers by. It’s a strange blend of likes and dislikes that works intermittently.


At times they sound like they’re trying to be Skindred, and failing, ‘Throw Your Sets Up’ is a song that has this similarity and every time I hear it, I have to turn off Whole Wheat Bread and go listen to Skindred. Other times though, they are quite original and entertaining.


I just keep flip flopping about whether I actually like to listen to the album, and it’s not even that some of the songs are good and the rest is just filler, the same song can have very different reactions each time.


Whole Wheat Bread cross more genres than is first apparent. They have elements from Rock, Rap, Punk, Pop and most of the already established interjecting genres. It’s actually quite an eclectic mix, and is a lot more subtle and varying than is first apparent.
”I Can’t Think’ for example has some very punky undertones but has large sections of rap in there and it works very well. The singer, Nasty Nigga Fleetwood, has a nice raspy roundness to his voice that fits itself to all components of his vocals and doesn’t fall short at any point and I think this is what carries the album through the connecting genres. This is the point where other bands that try to cross the genres fail, but Whole Wheat Bread seem to remain solid throughout.


Listen to this album: While subtly rebelling.

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