This
four song EP is my introduction to Elaine Rasnake, and a quick check on Band
Camp reveals three prior songs (a single and then a double), but wow was I
blown away by this. It’s mostly
instrumental music that comes up somewhere between Austra or Kimbra, then also
has these sounds of bottle blowing and of course beats.
Musically,
this is a charm, but what’s more so than that is this being a concept
album. The songs are titled after the
sounds they make, and the sounds that are made during the songs are patterned
after the vowels and, well, obviously the title of the album has the word
vowels in it.
There
are very few qualifications that I have for good music in this day and age, as
I used to want a drum beat I could dance to or vocals I could sing along with,
etc. Now two of my biggest qualifiers
for great music include that it sounds good on cassette and would be
appropriate for children.
Even if
in a listening way and not translating into a learning way, I imagine that this
would be very good on the ears of children.
In that regard, I picture Ms. Rasnake as a teacher, which is kind of
cool. I also would 100% buy this were
it to be released as a cassette tape and that pretty much just furthers how
excellent it must be.
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