Cassette Review // The Flesh, Full of Black Sand "Outer World"

 

https://thefleshfullofblacksand.bandcamp.com/merch/the-flesh-full-of-black-sand-outer-world-cs

This cassette begins with sharpness coming through like ringing.  At first, I didn't know what was wrong because I couldn't hear anything but then I realized the volume on my tape player was somehow down all the way.   Quieter noises are in the background of this and it just creates a sort of haunted vibe.   Beeping comes through now as well, which gives off this S.O.S. distress signal vibe.   It really can feel like we're just going into this dark place and so it feels like the score to a horror film or "Saw".

More electronic type sounds come through now which makes it feel like we're finding a homing beacon.  I use this premise so much with music, but it really does feel like we're floating in space, hoping to find our way home.   The tones from the start return now as it gets sharper, higher pitched, once again.   We go back into that dark place though, sometimes having this just chill feeling where the music is safe for dogs and then other times it simply is not.  

As this feels like a movie or perhaps a video game soundtrack we just keep going back to this one place.  It can be space, it can be a basement where you're kept and tortured, but the fact is that through this sound you will just continue to hear that familiar place.   This also just seems to hold the air about it where you don't want to walk down this part of the street at night or you might run into some trouble.   It's not even like some tough gang of kids might get you, but rather a full on monster movie.  

On the flip side we begin with a more ominous type of deep drone.   A nice humming type of synth tone is coming through.   This sound in the background remains, but this other tone comes in over it and the whole thing is just taking on these different layers and is really messing with my tinnitus.   At times it feels like we're embracing for lift off, but overall this is now maintaining a steady droning.

At times the sound can come through a bit more hollow, like the ringing of glass, but it maintains that same droning pattern for most of this side.   To me it feels like it can be hypnotizing into the sound and so you just get sucked in and then you find yourself in this space that you weren't in before but when you try and leave it the absence of this sound feels wrong.   It can get slightly sharper at times but the theme of this side seems to be the consistency.