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Drunken Forest

Seems to be some sort of experimental ambient album. Sounds like something I can get behind.

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Track 1 Hisses, clicks, and a banjo??? Don't get me wrong this is quite pretty, but I was not expecting a banjo to lead the song. Bit of droning feedback coming in here. Now a double bass over some minimal synths. Not sure how I feel about that ending; liked it overall though.

Track 2 Just a quiet synth and nothing else in the beginning, oh no wait there a more synths coming in now, and also something being plucked. I guess I can really only describe this as unsettling. I feel like I should be listening to this at night, but oh well. Feels like I'm outside and the whole damn world is ending around me.

Track 3 A violin solo? This album keeps throwing unexpected sounds at me. This sounds like it could be on the soundtrack to one of those new Sherlock Holmes movies, if it had a bit more instrumentation surrounding it. And there are the electronics, I was wondering where they had run off to. That was meh, got a bit boring as it went on.

Track 4 Not much to this one at all, just some glitches and hisses. Now some fake ass bubbling noises and wind sounds. Is that a helicopter I hear? Not for me.

Track 5 Do I hear some blissful droning synths? Aw, they're gone. Don't know how to describe the percussion in this at all. There's too much going on for me to really describe this well. The problem is I'm not attaching to any of the ideas presented here in any way that could be described as favorable. It's just annoying.

Track 6 It's funny I really do like some EAI and Onkyo I've heard, but this is just plain annoying. I can't even really call this EAI either, in fact what would you describe this as? Dark ambient? It's not really like most other dark ambient I've heard, it's much more experimental. Whatever, it doesn't matter anyways.

Track 7 Some sort of cymbal roll at the start? Yo, I hear a sax and I love the tone. I like the double bass in this one too, in fact everything is coming together nicely here. If this is what the whole album was like I might like it more. Lots of noisy electronics and stuttering rhythms at the end.

Track 8 Weird sci-fi electronics and arrhythmic tapping on objects for presumably 5 minutes, fun. Oops, spoke too soon there's a bunch of stuff going on now. I've liked everything since about the 1 minute 30 second mark here, very dreary improvisation that I can get down with. This sounds like Autechtre if they used more acoustic instruments.

Track 9 Again too many things going on to accurately describe it; electronics, percussion, noise, and multitude of other sounds that I haven't the slightest idea what their origin is. Oh I like this part, some sort of chamber orchestra thing going on. First half was near unlistenable though.

Track 10 I don't know man, I really am having a hard time writing about this one. Some parts I like and then others I think are unlistenable and they happen at the same goddamn time. Ahg, it's so ****ing frustrating. The strings are nice. Okay this section I can actually understand, when things aren't flying at me from all directions the album has some choice moments, this is one of them. It almost sounds like their take on doom metal or something. The second part saved me from hating this one.

Track 11 This sounds like the beginning of track 8. WOAH GUITAR?! My ears do not deceive me that is indeed a guitar. Extremely beautiful little moment there between the guitar and banjo, but it ended too quickly back into the abstract electronics. This again reminds me of Autechtre, but nothings really happening. Eh, kind of uneventful closing track.

Final verdict: meh

5/10