Have you ever wanted to hear the sound of ADHD?



I know of Sbassbear by way of their remixes of the Game Grumps. GG just did a reaction vid to the latest such Sbassbear release, and Dan mentioned that Sbassbear had a new album out. He described it as "51 minutes and 77 tracks, it's insanity, and I love it." Which was intriguing, because what, why, how?

I then spent an hour listening to the painfully relatable experience of one's brain just being a frantically spinning radio dial. It's a mix of music and fake ads and spoken word and gibberish. It is probably not everyone's style of humor; I wouldn't have been able to say that it was my style of humor. And yet, the giggling and sputtering did not stop.

I streamed it on YT, as embedded above. It's also on Bandcamp, and yes, I WILL be buying it and listening to it obsessively.

That being said, I actually really recommend listening to it on YT at least once, especially if you do not have any kind of adblocker. The experience of the video cutting to commercials while I was in another room and having no idea it wasn't part of the bit was genuinely hilarious. I got an ad for some hospital, with a person saying earnestly that he thought he was pretty healthy but was having chest pains that turned out to be a "widowmaker" heart attack, and he didn't know it until he walked into the hospital. This was delivered in such a tone of "shucks, I'm just a regular Joe Doofus, and I don't know shit about fuck," I truly believed it was part of the album and kept waiting for a punchline and/or beat to drop. Priceless.

I also got unexpectedly emotional at the penultimate track, when he talks about the very real struggles of being a creator with ADHD.

The first few mantis shrimp had come from the mermaids, traded for rare freshwater shells coveted by the salt-dwelling, and he had undertaken a project of selective breeding and training. Having a domesticated mantis shrimp as an assistive animal had its own limitations, but there was room by the window for both his easel and an aquarium with an elaborate communication board. Though he was colorblind, his service shrimp guided him through a world of color even the finest paints struggled to render.

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