The music
of Mahler Haze is very much static drone mixed with synth drone on “Sweat Saves
Blood”. It has this constant sort of
idea behind every track, even though they do sound different and you can tell
one from the other not just because of the slight dead air in between.
There
is a point early on where the pace picks up a little bit and it sounds like a
full band is in play. This becomes that
dark and hollow sort of sound like you might hear on The Crow soundtrack, yet
it also drifts a little bit into the jangling of a Jim Carroll poem.
It
is the little nuances that make this album what it is, as you can hear a slight
beep here and begin to think 8bit even though it’s really not that much, or
just a little crackle there that makes you recall the rustling of leaves and
walking through the forest on a fall afternoon.
For
what you think of when you think ambient and the other terms that I said that
go along with the general instrumental vibe, you don’t really think of music as
having this sort of harmony and it’s almost in a ringing sense that it comes
out.
I
can’t quite fully explain it because it is the musical equal to the skyline
changing color as the sun sets, but you can get the idea enough to know that it
is not only beautiful but it is magical.
And for everything else that
goes on within these songs, it is mostly peaceful at its core and I do so take
pleasure in that fact.
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