Outer
Gods gets two tracks on this split, though Unit Charge only gets one so to
start off right away, Outer Gods is already ahead on points. Which
would be a bad thing if this was a soccer match, but I always do find it kind
of funny for some reason when bands do split and one gets more songs than the
other, like what did Outer Gods do to get twice as many songs? I bet it’s a time thing, in terms of the
length of the songs, but what can I say?
I just typed this whole paragraph and you still know nothing about
either of these bands or their music, well, other than Outer Gods being up 2-1.
The
heavily distorted guitar drone demonstrated by Outer Gods is what I have dubbed
the dark drone of doom. It’s got that static sound to it and overall
just feels like an excerpt from NIN’s “The Fragile” or maybe even an
instrumental bit from Backstabbers, Inc.
There is an audio clip spliced in to break things up, but this is
basically the Uncle Meat type of dark ambience that will either keep you awake
or give you nightmares. There is also
this sort of haunting talk as we near the end and it just seems even more like
a horror movie, which makes me even more cautious because I should’ve noticed
it from the start and now I’m pretty certain the rest of my college buddies are
dead and I’m next.
On the
flip side, Unit Charge doesn’t have quite as much darkness to their sound. They come off more like a field recording,
even if that field recording could be from space. It is
drone and there is a certain synth sense to the ambience of it all, but yeah,
it’s just not as dark as the first side even though it is very nice. There are some noises of birds too, so it
definitely has that nature vibe and seems calm and soothing enough to relax to
or meditate upon.
What I
like about this tape as a split is that both sides are doing the instrumental
ambient thing, so on the surface and in terms of Band Camp tags, Outer Gods and
Unit Charge have a lot in common and could almost appear to be the same
band. Yet, the emotions they convey, the images
which they project in my mind are completely opposite in something straight out
of Jekyll and Hyde and for that their pairing is rather brilliant.
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