Like I warned, I'm not really the right person to comment on
weird noise experiments. The review (if we can call it that) is
as one would expect based on that.
Please don't hate me.
(1) Yuck! A bunch of disgusting noises cut up to sound... more
interesting? I guess that's the idea. Maybe it is of incredible
thematic relevance that this piece introduces the album, but
then why is the second track (2) also just a short soundbit?
(3) A mechanical horse stampede with puny gun noises. I think.
(4) Those faucets need some oil and that guy needs an asthma
inhalator.
(5) Rambling cartoon character stuck in a loop. Or in a centrifuge
full of bees.
(6) That almost feels like a melody. Erh... sort of. Too long goes by without much change in dynamics.
(7) Unsettling? Perhaps, but at least it isn't as frantic as
the other tracks. But 2:22 tho? Get on with it!
(8) A ringing noise, electric buzzing, crunching noises. I don't know how to review stuff like this. I'm decribing what I hear.
(9) Frankly? Just start the album here. This one is actually sort of interesting. Some low key guitar plucking fed through
a lot of filters or ... whatever it is. The point is that it resembles actual music to my ears. Very random, but I can dig it.
There's even a nice little change after the 2:03 mark.
(10) Sounds like Justin Bieber?? Oh wait, it's a Spotify commercial.
(10 (for real)) "Tube Sealant and Duct Tape All Over the Chair. Explain Yourself".
I'll have 50 minutes of this for my next sci-fi horror game, please.
(11) Actual music! What I'm picturing is two Lebanese men playing guitar. One is jamming it out, free jazz style, but
with a very ethnic melodic feel to it. The other guitarist is just tripping balls, hammering his fist against the guitar
repeatedly. Pretty good.
(12) Sounds like the next part of the album is under construction.
(13) Rawwwwrrrr! Rawk guitar! This is gonna be some epic doom metal! Not really though. The band never showed up.
(14) Acoustic guitar. Yet again, pretty improvised, but nice vibe all the same. Some moments suffer a bit from not being
properly composed, other moments hit something special. I guess that's the nature of improvisation.
(15) The C64 apocalypse is upon us. I'll file this under "endurance test". Later in the track, a freight train zooms by
the recording equipment at about 2 cm distance. My ears really appreciated that.
(16) What a cock tease! For a moment, I thought we were getting a weird acid-country song. Some interesting noises result
from some distorted noodling and pitch bending on an electric guitar, but 9:45???
I'm done.
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Final rating:
/ 10