Cassette Review // charles lareau "stasis" (Public Eyesore Records / Eh? Records)

https://publiceyesore.bandcamp.com/album/stasis

There is a bit of silence at the beginning of this cassette, so when that first note hits it might give you a jump scare.   The distortion comes through in a wall and just obliterates everything around it.    Electronics come in now to give this a smooth driving feel before it sounds like a spaceship landing.   Like an engine driving, this sound just stays steady now.   Sounds somewhat like a lightsaber come through and it just kind of fades out into footsteps.

A slow build of more angelic electronics now as it sounds like a cross between a can being opened and a glass bowl.   A door creaks open now and everything feels like it is increasing in both intensity and pacing.   A bit of back and forth as the alien whirrs come in as well now.   A quieter rolling now and individual notes.  

Everything stops and a certain haunted air comes through now, slowly creeping.   As it slows through this haunted room feeling, there is a sound now which is almost like laughing.   It feels as if there is some heavy breathing into a microphone before everything goes silent with a whirr and that is how the first side comes to its end.

As the whirrs whoosh on the flip side there are also some beeps which make this feel a bit alien- like we are exploring a different planet in search of anything.    Someone is speaking, but it is difficult to hear as loud skipping distortion takes over everything.   Sharp tones cut through the distortion now and this feels like a spaceship out of control, but you know, like one of those car types that drives on the surface of a planet.   

We drop down into some louder static now and this just feels like it's designed to blow out your speakers.   Some whirrs come through and it feels like we're changing channels before this ominous beat of someone walking where it feels like they're dragging something.   It has big vibes of Michael Myers or Leatherface, but then this blissed out tone like the "Masters of the Universe" movie comes through.  

Through these blissed out tones comes some scraping and then it just intensifies to where it feels like we're shipping off into space but in the most happy way possible.   We're creating some nice looping here as it feels like we're drifting further and further into space, with the electronics loud but not as loud as before.    You can really hear the guitar blistering through now.    The electronics flutter back and forth as this one comes to an end in spectacular fashion.