I’ve
always been of the belief that any music can sound good on cassette so long as
it is good itself because I feel cassettes are the optimal medium to experience
recorded music. In the late ‘90’s and
early ’00;s, I was getting demo tapes of hardcore bands handed to me literally
on cassette and well, yeah, Earth Crisis still sounds good, even on
cassette. If anything, being on cassette
just makes a good band sound better.
When
“Demography” starts, it is a screamy bit of emo that can come out somewhere
between skramz and mewithoutYou. The
thing is, throughout the cassette, The Exploration does in fact manage to go
back and forth from that base to other styles of similar interest, which
include math rock and just the all around melodic feel of music.
The
Exploration is a band that should really just speak to you both lyrically and
musically. With other forms of recorded
music (Specifically records and CDs) they are so flat, so one dimensional. Cassettes- and one of the reasons why I love
them so much- are three dimensional.
If you crack a record, it stays broken.
A CD isn’t anything but a sturdier record with lasers instead of
needles. A cassette though… A cassette
can be opened up, whether unscrewed or broken, and it can show you its
insides. A cassette has gears
turning. A cassette is complex.
Needless
to say, it seems only fitting that the layers involved in “Demography”, with
the passion and just all around heartfelt emotion, should be on the medium
which also can convey the strongest emotion.
A cassette can be broken up, the spool of tape falling out and tangled. But these songs can just as easily bust you
open and leave you vulnerable and exposed.
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