Cassette Review // Luke Loseth and Stefan Christoff "Early Spring" (Pyramid Blood)

https://pyramidblood.bandcamp.com/album/early-spring

This cassette begins with beautiful acoustic guitar strums to set the mood.   Through these deeper strums some higher pitched ones can take over and just make it feel like we're going on a rather magical journey.   This is relaxing as well, something that could make you just completely zone out while listening to it.   A droning comes in behind this all now as well, a bit of sonar but just also keeping that magical feeling alive.  The pace can quicken, as it becomes more intense, but it also just feels like it's helping to guide your spiritual journey.

As the first track sort of rambles to an end and then hits that final strum, we go into the next song which is still very much an acoustic guitar but this time the vibe is more upbeat but somehow it can also feel like a gunslinger about to go out into the Old West.  The rhythm begins to feel like an up and down, as if we're riding a horse, and there is a slight ringing behind it, like a telephone ringing someone just refuses to answer.  Once again that magical feeling returns as there is just something about this which makes it feel more than just the sum of its parts.  

There's something about the sonic radar magic in this one, feeling like a film score set where you'd have a future character (someone from space, such as a sci-fi film) put into an Old Western where you can feel the desert and nature around you.  Higher pitched tones come through with the plucking of strings and it just feels like that idea of introducing newer technology into an environment using older technology.  I'm not sure if anyone has ever created a film where an astronaut gets launched into space in the year 3535 and comes back down to Earth in the Old West, but if they do, this could be some of the film score.  

On the flip side we open with these bright acoustic guitar notes and the sound of running water behind it.  The music can almost sound as if it is tuning, climbing up and then falling back down.  The sounds join together now, louder like a forcefield shining through, and then they die back down into acoustics.   That glowing raygun force stays now, in waves at times, as the acoustics continue to strum.  

A droning sharp hue begins the next song as it can feel like we're stuck in space.  Everything is coming through on these frequencies, the type would upset a dog's ears but don't phase me after too long of listening to music too loud.  The strumming eventually takes over in a blissed out way which makes everything feel so dreamy.   The pace increases and feels more urgent overall now.  The more this song continues on like this, the more I feel like I can hear lyrics coming out, singing about breaking these chains.  There is a deep droning behind the acoustics though.  

Notes can come out now, as if with a message, sort of like morse code but something different.  This can feel like plucking strings until you can't pluck any more and then this more melodic bass filled chord comes out to start a new song.  A ringing behind it all now, but in a sci-fi way.  Notes feel like they're cutting through now, moving at a growing pace.  As much as it feels like we could be joyfully floating in space like a Flaming Lips song there are also these beeps and ringing going on with this, which could also be in a Flaming Lips song but just gives this one such distinction with the acoustics and electronics.