While
I have never heard ARU before (I assumed it stood for something, but I’m still
unclear as to what that might be exactly) it is always good to hear new music
by Underwater Escape from the Black Hole.
Sometimes the continuing saga of UWEFTBH makes me think he should’ve
either escaped or been caught escaping by now, but nonetheless…
ARU
begins with these skipping sort of beats.
They almost sound like they’re underwater and I can think of them as
being a minimalistic version of The Prodigy or a song like “Head Like a Hole”. There are these sort of vocals and I can’t
explain them but they’re there and they aren’t really vocals, but otherwise
this is instrumental. Sounds of records
scratching (As if the record is being scratched, not that sound specifically)
lead us into a slower and quieter version of these sounds.
This
is mainly filled with a lot of loops and it should have some kind of label to
attach to it- some sort of subgenre if you will- and I kept trying to think of
one but kept coming up blank. It’s not
vaporwave, though that was my first thought, and it’s not even really glo-fi
though I feel that might be a bit closer, but it is something and it is quite
good.
Side
B features UWEFTBH and it begins in a sense of FNL music. There is dark, distorted drone and then it
becomes this chopped up sort of triumphant synth. There are sort of vocals in here as well,
but not the same as from the ARU side. UWEFTBH finds some beats and just overall
these sort of electronic keytar type of sounds within loops and patterns.
While
this may not be how I remember UWEFTBH exactly, it is still something I can get
behind and I feel like the addition of ARU to the mix will only help matters in
the long run. People might be drawn to
this for UWEFTBH and why wouldn’t they be?
But if they find the ARU side they are sure to like it as well, and I
call that win-win.
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