Describing
the music of ZN is like describing a car wreck as it unfolds. Only when you play it back in slow motion can
you begin to truly understand and appreciate every facet of it. Yet, what’s funny is that when I was a kid I
just heard music as music, I never really thought about the elements that made
it up (mostly guitar, bass and drums) until I got older and now all I can hear
are the parts of the whole.
On the
first track, there is a lot of clutter, going back to that car wreck idea. There are Megatron-like vocals, and some
fairly loud and distorted guitar notes.
Scales continue to climb up and fall down. Bass notes are being plucked, as the improv
noise gives way to cars beeping and, yes, eventually crashing. Toward the end of this track, we can hear
the trumpet play its sad song.
Screaming
begins the heavy Nirvana-like second song.
The sound of the music stand being knocked over is captured, and the
destruction of the acoustic guitar begins.
The trumpet resurfaces for this song, only this time rather than the
sullen tone from before it also sounds quite angry.
For the
last track, a violin is being misplayed, with some hints of Flight of the
Bumblebee coming out. There is also a
nice “Psycho” vibe, which gives way to an overall undertone of System of a
Down, which is what this might possibly remind me most of only it’s really not
even too close to that on the whole.
For
these three songs, at a Name Your Price download option, I would suggest paying
at least $1 per song, but in reality you’d be lucky to download this from their
Bandcamp for anything under a price of $7.
No comments:
Post a Comment