A few months ago, I came up with an idea of making a sort of “humorous” EP after I hit a group of friends with a good “your mom” joke. It’s not the first time I said a “your mom” joke, I say it fairly extensively in my personal life, but that moment had me wanting to try and come up with an EP that was in line with my humor that didn’t necessarily need to be taken too seriously.

When I started working on Your Mom Asked Me to Make This – EP, I originally wanted to make something much like what I was doing with Destruction is Your Religion – EP and Deche-Charge Brain Rot Go Brrrr. However, I, for some reason, just couldn’t really get myself to do that. Everything I had tried writing wasn’t coming out the way I wanted or even in a way I liked. And the kicker? I wasn’t trying to take this seriously! Cos why should I? This is supposed to be fun and not serious for Pete’s sake! Instead then, I relegated myself to working out the cover art—hoping something would come to me.

Nothing ever did, at least not in the way I wanted it to. Rather, instead, what came to me was a realization I didn’t know I needed, I was looking for a reason why this should exist and asking why it should exist instead of just allowing it to exist. How did I come to this? A fucking Charles fucking Bronson movie, Hard Times, as well as Reform School Girls and even goddamn James Bond.

Those movies seemingly exist because people wanted to make them cos they had the idea for them and why the hell not? (Don’t come at me with anything more cos I know for a fact that none of those movies would be made cos they wouldn’t make any money for the studios these days, outside of James Bond but there’s an argument to be made about the Roger Moore years.) So why can’t I make a simple, silly little EP just for the hell of it?

But what would it sound like?

And while I thought about it, I just couldn’t get behind doing another straight up noisecore EP. It’s not that I’m done with noisecore but I ultimately just didn’t think it would really feel right. I wanted—needed—a different sort of sound. To explore something that was both VENUS-426 but also pushed those boundaries.

That’s when I started to mess with a few different field recordings, as well as a scratch demo even, to use on this EP.

The first song to come out of this was “I Received a Transmission From Your Mom Last Night” and from there, I knew I had something I wanted to run with. Then, it seemed, everything really started to fall into place, almost. The next song to just jump out of my brain and into the DAW was “Tell Your Mom I Said Hi”. With two songs finished that both would equal to being about 20 mins, I sat back and thought whether or not I should do more. After all an EP is usually just a few songs and not very long. But I am me and I do what I want and what I like and hope for the best.

I decided to, at least, come up with one more song that would end up becoming three separate songs; Your Mom Gets Me (Off) [Pt. I], Motor-Boating Your Mom (At the End of the World) [Pt. II], I Ate (Your Mom) Out [Pt. III]. I chose to do so because keeping it as one song simply felt too long and perhaps, even, just simply too much considering the constant noise that is happening throughout all three songs. It just really ended up working out that when I wrote it as one song, it was written in a way that I could split it into perfectly three songs that you’ll hear.

Five songs down and you would think I would be satisfied with that right? Well, not really. I wanted an even six songs but a problem arose in what the heck do I do for a sixth song?

After much deliberation and trying various things, I was starting to think maybe six songs was either too ambitious or maybe I should just sit and wait for me to get out of the house and maybe get a field recording of note. But I would remember a demo recording I did and thus I had my sixth song, “Makin’ Noise With Your Mom”.

When I listened to these songs back, I felt like something was still missing in them. I wasn’t sure initially, but I just knew they needed something else. As I was looking through the songs and seeing how this EP was coming together, it finally occurred to me—I needed a little humor within some of these songs. But how and where can I add some humor?

Samples.

Samples are ya girl’s best friend when making music. I’m fairly notorious and don’t give a fuck and love using them, especially if a song does call for it. So I added two different movie samples, even as well as a wrestling sample. I strategically placed them within the songs I felt most appropriate as well with the thought of being able to give the listener both something to smile/giggle at and just a reminder that while this music is harsh and heavy, you can still smile and laugh.

Ultimately, that’s where I’ve ended up with this EP. A reminder that life is really harsh and heavy and it can be extremely difficult to find joy in anything, especially in this current climate. That not only is joy meant to be found but it can also be created and help bring amusement to others. I don’t really think this will reach more than the few people that will want to listen, but if even one of those people smile at this silly, fun EP then I know it’s done its job. Shit this fucking thing has brought me joy just from creating it and it has even made my girlfriend laugh at the song titles and the description I did for it.

And the cover art? Well that’s a pic of me I took for your mom, duh!

Bandcamp: https://venus-426.bandcamp.com/album/your-mom-asked-me-to-make-this-ep

Bandcamp Codes/Album Download: https://wendysnoisenook.noblogs.org/?page_id=52

Ampwall: https://venus-426.ampwall.com/album/your-mom-asked-me-to-make-this-ep

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