With this album title, it’s easy to assign these
seemingly untranslatable-to-human fluctuations in soundwaves as possible cosmic
echoes off of distant planets and/or maybe, liek, signs from Extraterrestrial
Intelligence orsomething. To the layperson, it all could easily sound like someone
just jerking around with a theremin and distortion pedal. I suggest it’s
somewhere in between. Make no mistake about it, though, that if you put enough
effort into listening to this stuff while sitting still, with decent
headphones, the psychoacoustic headfuckery achieved is very, very real; it
leaves me thinking that this multi-channeled recording is, in fact, careful and
deliberate…but I’m on summer vacation and in the mood for weird shit, so maybe
it’s just me?
On a semi-related note, Love Earth Music puts out
some pretty decent stuff…and sporadically some stuff I’d personally deem as
unlistenably formulaic (this release is very much the former), but I’d pick up
just about anything they’d put out if I found it in a used bin, and, if you,
too, love the weird shit, I suggest you do the same. Otherwise, with their
bare-bones (read: “not helpful”) website, you’ll never know the outsider glory
that is their oh-so-mysterious-d-i-y shtick.
-- Jacob
An Kittenplan
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