User:AAE/Reviewing "Christian and the Hedgehog Boys"

Chris is arguably the most controversial outsider artist in Internet history. She came of age during a perfect storm of digital development, marked by cheap/free Internet hosting and accessible recording technology. Anyone can publish a webcomic, broadcast themselves on YouTube, or record an album.

Chris's first album is perhaps the rawest look one could get into her college-aged mind. This article will be a review of this defining piece of Christorical art.

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It's often claimed that modern music technology negates the need for talent and practice. The endless barrage of mediocre albums on the Internet disproves that myth – but Chris doesn't even bother with the most basic of modern recording technology. In fact, this first album was recorded to a cassette tape, in one take, with one microphone. She didn't use any fancy synthesizers – just a boom box loaded with tracks from the late 90s. She didn't bother with Auto-Tune, compression, or even de-noise (I think she left her fan on when she was recording). I wouldn't be surprised if she thinks this method of recording is more authentic, much as she does with her "hand-drawn art."