The Illegal Wiretaps “Pretty Suede Coffin E.P.”
<1> “What’s Your Crime” – We begin with synth and background noises in a most industrial way. Is this the new sound of the Illegal Wiretaps? It seems to be coming out a lot more lately in their songs. And now the female vocals come in as the music slows down and fades out before coming back in the form of a drum beat. I just looked to see if this song was going to end at the two minute mark, but it didn’t. If it did, I would have felt like that was too short for a IWT song, so I’m glad it kept going. And at about the 2:45 mark we are back to where the song began with the synth that almost sounds more 8bit to me right now for some reason. And we will end on the female vocals.
<2> “Third-Person Shooter” (Negative Tapes Remix) – Where does this song originally appear? Ahh, I need to quit writing about any music that isn’t IWT for a month or two and get my head back into this game. This definitely has a remix sound to it, but does it really count as a remix if you’re doing it to yourself? In any event, let us now determine that this shall be an instrumental electronic album. This X-Files theme type song being no exception to that idea. And at 1:30 we get this noise that is a combination of mice running through the ceiling and a video tape rewinding. Seriously, what is that noise going on there? Is it a tape rewinding and that’s part of the Negative Tapes? Hmm…
<3> “2 A.M. Ad Infinitum” – This is starting all quiet and ambient, kind of like the noises you’d hear on the in between songs from Nine Inch Nails’ album “The Fragile”, my all-time favorite NIN album for the record. Yes, three and a half minutes in and this is still going on like this. Nearing the six minute mark and this still just resembles the soundtrack to some barren wasteland of a movie.
<4> “Menace” – We begin more like the track before the last, the second track, with a synth-industrial feel. These synth notes are creating quite a bit of static in my earbuds and they almost hurt my ears. Isn’t that crazy? They also seem to be singing something. Yes, and here come the lightsabers just before the 1:30 marker. Is that why this song is called “Menace”? Is it like The Phantom Menace? If not, I think it should be related now somehow. The lightsaber noises are coming and going. I guess it all depends upon how close the Sith is. At the four minute mark this gets pretty interesting. Definitely worth sticking around until the end to hear. It kind of almost sounds like those sticks that make noise when you turn them upside down… You know what I’m talking about? There’s probably a name for them or some sort of actual instrument that makes that sound. I really need to take some kind of music classes to figure out what is all going on here exactly.
<5> “Pretty Suede Coffin” – The female voice who haunts me in my sleep is back. Oddly, so are the lightsaber noises, so who knows what that’s all about. This seems to be building to something so let’s see how it plays out. We have a nice beat going at the three minute mark. And I think the female voice just said “I love you” but I hope not. And we come to a screeching halt to end the track.
<6> “Wrecked Volvo” – This has some funky bass synth starting us off. And in come the cut telephone wires. This has a lot of parts to it though that could be like Nine Inch Nails for sure. Then just before two minutes we go into this almost organ sound which has the New Order drum machine kick into it afterwards. The organ sound is still going, even with the drums and synth; they’ve all just kind of combined themselves together. Wow that was loud and sounded like a dial tone. Now it’s getting all quiet and like musical raindrops. Bass drum beat. And we end with the organ sound. That EP felt like eating a lot of food when you were only expecting to eat a little—you know, thinking you’re going to have a small meal and then finding yourself really full at the end.
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