Between
these two sides and artists, I can tell after the first listen through that
this is going to be one of those splits where the pair gets together because of
their similarities. I will refrain from
the typical “they sound similar, but not the same” speech I’ve been known to
give perhaps too many times.
What
starts on the AMFJ side is some of the most destructively brilliant music that
I have ever heard, and it just makes me happy to be able to type the words “destructively
brilliant”. It’s heavy, but there are
acoustic guitar string being plucked and it’s like something out of an
instrumental Nine Inch Nails, only not… it’s just so much more. To say it’s brooding is an understatement
and this is just some of the best music I have ever heard no matter what genre
or label or category you see fit to file it in.
The
AUXPAN side of this is a little bit lighter, and through the different noises
you’ll find the most prominent seems to be this sort of chirping noise that I’ve
interpreted as the squeak of a sneaker on a basketball court. It’s kind of interesting in its own right,
because it sounds like someone could have recorded the audio of a basketball
game, paused after a split second and put it on a loop. This continues to make me think that it will
one time jump the skip and we’ll hear the otherwise sounds of a basketball
game, but alas we do not.
Admittedly,
it would be hard for anyone to follow up what I heard on the AMFJ side, but the
way that AUXPAN has managed to distract me with daydreams of a sporting event I
never attended seems to have done the trick, so bravo to both artists and both
sides.
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