#huge oyd

'algeria' is interesting for the respect it gives to men. The speaker states the "trespassing of malespace", a fundamental space women must give to men in order to express their masculinity. This is unusual for a female speaker in the modern era, causing me to set Huge Oyd in the period of the early 2000s. If women had this respect for male spaces now... However, her discussions of lesbian identity certainly contribute to the male loneliness epidemic. What's so wrong with men?

I've been thinking about tape as H.O.'s primary means of recording their music. It's interesting because they're clearly recording post-1985, when there were far higher fidelity methods of recording. Of course, they were never signed to a record label. I expect the use of tape is either because it was cheaper than studio recording or purposefully creating lo-fi recordings for that shoegaze effect. The music suits a lo-fi quality, it's clear the musical timbres are often quite muddied, which translates to more noise being present on tape. I suppose that muddied quality is a kind of musical introversion. Given the heavy topic of the songs, perhaps this is a way of hiding from the emotions expressed.