CD Review // Guro Skumsnes Moe & Philippe Petit "Guro Skumsnes Moe & Philippe Petit" (Public Eyesore Records)

https://publiceyesore.bandcamp.com/album/guro-skumsnes-moe-philippe-petit

This CD begins with the sounds like something revving up- a chainsaw perhaps- and then it turns into this full on nuclear blast warning siren.   There is this strange twisting sound, but almost like someone is cutting wood also, as a voice lets out "ah" and "oh" sounds on top of it all.  A lot of creaking in that wooden way now as well.

The sound feels more dark and ominous now, as there is some scraping, and then lasers come through like birds.  Up and down the tones go before sharper beeping comes in like a droid.   Haunted now, echoes are coming out that begin to sound like voices and even laughter.   Strong engine power now.   Whirrs cutting through like a flight scene in Star Wars.   Everything just feels like moving pieces now and I like it.

A motor begins to sound as if it is failing, this turns to a sort of video game vibe before the loud distorted bursts come blasting through as well.   Lasers whirrs are just all over the place and the electronics of robots can be heard once again as well.   Lighter tones seem to be dancing around behind this sharper sound, which is sort of droning as well.   The sound of a lone drum banging now, then dropping back into distortion.

That sound of the singing comes back in with this distortion now.   It begins to feel as if a spaceship is taking off, but those vocals persist in high pitched frequencies.  A little bit of Pole Position in here with the voice now.   Beeps come through one by one now, breaking through the distortion.   The sound now feels like that of back and forth church bells, but they begin to also feel as if they are scraping.   Still distorted, still beeping.   Somewhat like a door creaking open, somewhat like a baby screaming.

The Interlude has this dark Pole Position bass to it, which comes with scraping and other movements in sound.   It feels as if the frequency is being changed, like a radio station, as it goes a bit all over the place at the end.

Now we start with some rather sharp droning.   Darker now, there is a bit of shaking as well.   There is some back and forth in here, as if we're drifting at sea, and then it just crashes down with this loud thump that feels like lightning.   Sounds like a water sprinkler begin to build.   Louder now, this all comes through in a rather certain engine sound which just has a strong destruction feel to it as well.

It slows down into beeps and then a droning type of almost-sharp tones.   Strings come in now to give it that Alfred Hitchcock vibe.   I have headphones on and this grows quiet enough now that I can hear someone knocking but not at my door.  It kicks back in with a darker type of basement feel with these stretches of motors.   There is a bit of electricity in here as well, as we wind and find the path.

This all turns into droid beeping, rustling and then the electronics even begin to say Wall-E.   Ringing now, like a pinball machine.   The electronics, as robotic beeping, are really making the most of the sound here and it just feels as if the robots are in distress or at battle at least.   Everything between Wall-E and the pinball machines seem to come together now to form one sound- they're all working together.  

Tones push through the distortion as the electronic robots return as well.   It feels as if everything is on this same wave though, all floating across this same path.   Everything begins to sound like we're having some great space war with shots fired all around.   As we hit the end, there is one last laser blast and then it all is over.