Everything
about this record screams “ocean” to me before I even play it, whether it be
the idea of sunken treasure being placed in my head or the fact that eels tend
to live in oceans or at least I think they do.
So it doesn’t really come as much of a surprise to me when the first
song has these sad strings in it, which remind me of whale songs on some level,
and thus my first instinct is to compare this with Moby Dick.
As it
progresses throughout these songs though, those sad strings do resurface they
just don’t have the same whale sound as before and my mind has moved on from
the original nautical theme I thought this record presented.
There
are definitely some loops in here and the songs are mostly instrumental, though
on the second one there is some sort of muffled singing. I read somewhere that it might have been
made using a broken baby monitor, or maybe it was just some of the other
sounds, but in any case that’s pretty cool.
You
must also note that in the second song there is acoustic guitar plucking and
then a trippy sort of drone that becomes enchanting. This
sticks with the idea on the first song of being in the ocean, simply because it
can hypnotize you in a similar pattern that waves can.
It isn’t
until the third song that I believe we begin moving out of the water. By the end, there are distinct noises of
aliens coming through and it just loses anything it once had in a nautical
sense. There is also some sort of
singing on the last song, though it is more of a tribal chant, like something
Native Americans would have done, and that just throws me for another loop.
One of
the most perhaps farfetched yet somewhat accurate stories I could paint about
this record is that it is based upon a planet that is not Earth, but there are
humans there, native settlers such as America in pre-Christopher Columbus
times. It is also 90% water based, so there isn’t
much land, and this introduction to the planet is being told by eels.
Regardless
of how that story may sound, it gets the imagination going and that’s reason
enough for me to truly appreciate and enjoy this record.
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