Cassette Review // eloine "compulsive dinner guest" (Test Tone Music)

https://testtonemusic.bandcamp.com/album/compulsive-dinner-guest

A soft humming drone of synth begins this cassettes and it just resonates as other sounds begin to come in.  That first sound lingers over it all in a hypnotic way.  Crashes come through, the sound of water dripping too, and it just feels like we are locked in a damp basement somewhere, hearing the sounds Jigsaw might make while planning our demise.   A little bit of that ambient air now and then it begins to sound as if pianos are breaking, each key falling from its base as it is pressed.  

Metal dragged across concrete.  The banging of items such as pots and pans, only I feel like I recognize them as not being such.  A thunderous doom behind it all.   As it can feel like this metal digging, scraping even, on the surface there is this whole ambient electricity happening behind it and sometimes it's difficult to really choose which one to focus on.  Sharper screeching now takes over the background.  This sound becomes both robotic and animalistic at the same time, as it can begin to feel as if we are swirling the drain.  

As we change songs, an ambient drone takes hold of the next one.  There is some creaking, deep bass strings and this just feels haunted in ways.   It feels like a transmission from space that is getting some static.  A tone now rings as if the bell, it tolls for thee.  A sort of creaking drone now, like a door slowly opening, takes us into the third song.  Static slips come through and it can feel like we are changing radio stations between guitar chaos.   Scattered beeping can have this one sounding like droids communicating with each other as well.  That little buzzing tone like a bee brings us to the end of the first side.

An audio clip with a drone and grinding type of sound start things off on the flip side.  It sounds as if objects are rolling around within other objects, like marbles in a container.  A squishy sound now.  The audio clips continue but they become more difficult to understand, as sounds whoosh by like skateboard wheels on concrete.  It feels like we're changing frequencies in this very electronic way but then some of the sounds can also just be like crumbling up papers which makes it feel much more organic and natural.

A soft sound brings us into the second song now, like a motor.  It can feel now like we're just flying around in a little plane.  A buzzing now, but it still feels like we lift off every so often.  Loud beeping now, like when you call a phone number and get that message about it not being in service.  This then can also take on a more robotic feeling, like Transformers.  Beeping like a watch alarm now.  That soft motor purr returns.  

I'm not quite sure how to describe this sound which comes through next in blips but there is also a ringing behind it.  It just feels like something is trying to come out but abruptly gets cut off.  Into that droning hum comes some helicopter blade sounds.  The static builds to the point where this feels like it's at racing speeds now.  It grows more intense.  This feels like a lighter version of traffic and then a horn sound comes in, as if to summon.  Sharp lasers strike through now.  The distortion is like static.  Horns now come out with notes.  The tempo builds and this giant horn blasts as if to signal battle as we reach the end.