Cody
Drasser presents us right off with the name game problem, as you might expect
this to be more of the singer/songwriter route, but given that those seem to be
less and less these days I will from here on out just assume any time that I see
a first name and last name pairing it will be ambient or noise, you know,
something along the lines of Mike Shiflet.
“Lugubrium
Encumbrium” begins with the slow build of ambient drone. It is something such as perhaps new age in
quality, but then also has those hints of quietcore which just makes it that
much relaxing and peaceful. There is
some sort of muffled speaking part on Side A that has out of tune on purpose sounding
tones mixed in with it. It all ends on
Side A with a quiet sort of triumph, which begins looping and I just feel like
this is what you might hear should you spend your time at a day spa only
without the sort of cheesy and novelty aspects of that experience because I can
never really think of those experiences and take them seriously, but this music
is to be taken seriously.
On
Side B, we begin with a sonar drone that brings to mind all that comes with it. There is this noise that was also on the
first side that I forgot to mention. It’s
this crackling wind sound mixed with a slight amount of water noise. I cannot place it exactly and can only say
that it sounds similar to a bong. Yes,
that is the closest my ears can bring you to it and out there somewhere
Colorado rejoices.
Side
B and then the cassette as a whole ends with this sort of church organ tone,
which is not too different from how Side A ends. Someone could tell me that Side A and Side B
are the same and I’d question them on it, but they do have their similarities
for sure and I do enjoy that about it—the symmetry.
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