An air of unease, foreboding and darkness permeates every song with little respite or hope from escape. The tracks are almost all short, precise snapshots of a dark story some may not want retold.
If the liners notes are any indication (“Following the peculiar events of a night gone terribly wrong / right for one lost individual”) then DOOM.PARTY (Self-Released) was a hell of an event best witnessed from a distance or perhaps the comfortable safety of closed-circuit surveillance. An air of unease, foreboding and darkness permeates every song with little respite or hope from escape. The tracks are almost all short, precise snapshots of a dark story some may not want retold.
“In Deep” sounds almost like early Roni Size or Photek with its dark, loping beat and screaming samples. “Lurch” lives up to its name with a heavy, stretched backbeat pinning down the groove into someplace spooky best not visited without a 9,000,000,000 candlepower flashlight and a fistful of garlic. “Midnight” swirls into focus with moody synthetic pads and dark, thumping beats perfect for a glimpse of a shadowy figure running through rain-soaked streets under dim sodium lamps. “x.enctr” alights on fragile plucked guitar figures that are soon goaded into the light by gurgling synths and booming drums; it’s the score for a lonesome troupe of dancers slinking through a dark passage as they tell a story of loss, betrayal and murder. “stay.pt2” evokes the reverb drenched synths of Vangelis’ immortal Blade Runner soundtrack while moving into different realms, occupying a space between permanent darkness and temporary light. The album closes with “exit.stgy,” its rolling beat and pressing synth arpeggios driving towards a slow, fading denouement and the fragile aftermath of this strange and mysterious Doom Party.
DOOM.PARTY is available on Bandcamp.
