How
many times- and by how many people- will this name be misconstrued as “Restaurant”? It makes much more sense, but yet, having it
as Restaurnaut just makes me think of space food and, well, I’ve always been a
fan of space ice cream, so there you go.
Let’s eat food that doesn’t taste the same as it does on Earth, yet it
is still somehow yummy.
Side
A of this cassette kicks off the first three of the six songs on “When the Hue
Was More”. Right away, I can tell that
this is homemade is sounding, but I believe that is a theme with Kerchow
Records and I’m cool with that. What is
remarkable about these songs on Side A is that they are distorted, yet a
certain amount of melody still seeps through them. Though they have vocals themselves, they
remind me at least musically of the band Aloha.
There
also exist some keys coming through that on whatever levels reminds me of The
Doors, so you have that going for you now as well. Add that your impression of this musically,
yet also notice I just put “keys” and “doors” in the same sentence and yet
neither of them are the house kind.
After
the first side ends its three songs, there is some empty space left on the
cassette. This is always an awkward part
of listening to cassettes for me because I find myself listening to a lot of
dead air because I want to make sure nothing is hidden in there and also just
because I listen for that click of the side to end before I flip it over.
What
normally is moments of silence is rather a recorded message (probably made by a
computer voice, if not I apologize to any human I may offend) telling you to
flip the tape over, which actually just say this a bunch of times:
“Thank you for listening to Side A, “When
the Hue is More”, please fast forward to the end of this side and flip the tape
over to the other side, B”
I’m
not going to actually count how many times it was said, but it does take you to
the end of Side A and somehow manages to fit itself in there exactly with
length and everything too.
After
fast forwarding (just kidding, I didn’t do that) and flipping the tape over, we
enter Side B. This begins with a more standard type of song
called “Ghost Stories”, which has the title actually sung in it a few times, so
it’s kind of like this… I don’t know, it’s got this crisp synth sound to it
with a drum beat on repeat and the vocals.
It might be the closest we get to a “normal” song on this cassette and I’m
fine with that.
Oh
yeah, but it also has the voice of a little girl being sampled in it, telling
us about various topics which are sure to leave you both disturbed and in
awe. I swear on all that is holy, to
whoever is behind the project known as Restaurnaut, that if the child who is
sampled in this song is dead and this in fact has brought some sort of
nightmares upon me I will put a curse on you.
(In hindsight, it does sound like a voice
mail, and so it could be someone’s daughter, so I really hope that the child is
alive and well, but the fact that it goes with a song called “Ghost Stories”
makes me a little paranoid as I already have enough nightmares)
We
then turn our focus to an instrumental number which involves spoons being put
to drinking glasses, amidst other noises, and my soul is calmed. And
then the heavy breathing begins. What kind
of obscene phone call is this, huh?
Funny how things on this side keep getting pulled back to the
telephone.
The
last song, “Pin Missle”, ends us on a positive note, as this is something in
the vein of I Kill Giants’ “Secret Tunnel”, only with more words and slightly
longer. So, on the whole, yeah, this
tape was actually really good and I don’t think/hope there is any bad juju on
anyone who appears on it, listens to it or whatever. However, if you don’t buy this cassette and
listen to it, I offer you no promises.
Thank
you for reading this review of “When the Hue Was More”. You may now close out of this website and
return the computer to its rightful owner.
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