What
really got me about this Justin Marc Lloyd cassette was the title of it, and
then when it started there are some distorted bomb drops with mumbled words
which quickly turn into a distorted voice repeating the title. This reminds me back of the early ‘00’s
when I was listening to As Cities Burn and they had an album titled “Son I
Loved You At Your Darkest” and when that line came up in a song it was what
really sold me on that album. Although,
Justin Marc Lloyd isn’t really melodic screamo like As Cities Burn was (If they
still exist, they probably have a new singer)
Often
times, I can write about what happens on a cassette with a sort of play by play
with my take on the sounds I’m hearing (I rarely am able to use the technical
terms) and what sort of image that paints in my mind or perhaps what memory it
recalls. This isn’t so easy on this
Justin Marc Lloyd cassette, but rather it does quite easily on Side A give off
the overall vibe of an episode of “The Twilight Zone”, which just rules.
Side
B is a little bit more of a tricky wicket.
It begins with distorted bump and then goes into this ringtone sort of
whistle loop I can’t quite explain. All
the while, it’s full of sharp, aggressive feedback that offends the untrained
ear even more so than normal.
Eventually, this leads to the sounds of a pinball machine, which perhaps
might be where it was intended to go ultimately anyway. When I first found out about 8bit music I
thought it was neat how people were dissecting old Gameboys and using them as
musical instruments. Could this be what
is happening here only with an old pinball machine?
In
any event, these sounds are sure to please and take you away to another
place. This is my first time
experiencing Justin Marc Lloyd (Though I have a MOMA piece of his downloaded I
haven’t listened to yet because, you know, downloads) but I do hope to hear a
lot more from him for sure.
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