Cassette Review // cinchel "A Marble Sentiment" (Ingrown Records)

 https://ingrown.bandcamp.com/album/a-marble-sentiment

A slow ringing to start, then it becomes sharp.   As these strings come through like an under sea orchestra, there is also this magical feeling which surrounds them, as tones come in to lift them up.   There is a very soft, slow and minimal way about this sound.   The sound continues to expand and it can sound like we're just drifting through space as well.  Just... floating.    Synth takes over in that humming way now which can also be wavy and it feels like we've gone into a trance.  

The changes in sound can be ever so slight and slow, but they happen the same way that the sun rises.   It gets a little bit choppy, like we're into a storm, but then that lightning hits as you hear the distorted guitar note struck.   This just drops off into a sea of distortion now and it's gone from this feeling of the sound being almost nothing to just everything.   The sound goes from being loud at let's say a 10 to dropping down to about a 6 rather abruptly (which always messes with my ears) and then the first song fades out.

Church organ type tones come in now, to take us into what is the next song as it already feels uplifting.  I like to imagine the first song as this slow sun rise and then right as we can see the sun in the sky the clouds form and a storm brings down rain.  Now this is the after math of that storm.  It's the way you can look at a puddle on the ground and see the sunlight so brightly reflected in it.   

It rings with a little bit of sharpness now, as it steadies down into this synth drone.   The ringing turns less like a phone and more into some sort of fun electronics now and it just begins to start feeling like a transmission but perhaps just a friendly hello.   Some louder synths come in now, but we maintain that original sound.   By the end this can sound alien-like, but the pianos also come through and just feels like we're drifting off into nothing.  

On the flip side we start with this ringing but then notes drop as well, as if we're hearing those echoes.   This has a slow build, as if we are going to rise up.   As it gets a little bit sharper these glass tones come in as well to fill out the sound.   This has gone from being that singular line of sound like a laser pointer to something much more expanded like what comes out of the Care Bears.    The sound just keeps building like magic and it feels like we're on some sort of quest.

The way we go through this sound can feel as if we are watching old home movies.  As it winds down at times it can feel like we are seeing the end of such footage, but the sound does manage to come back with these slight changes you might not hear if not paying close enough attention.   There is also just such a wonderful ambient way about this that it's not something you can listen to while meditating or being chill but it does seem to relax me.

Hollow, whirring type tones now slowly build up on the next song.   This feels as if it is building and has those post rock elements to it as well.  These two different sounds both come out like light and when they take turns coming through it can feel as if they are communicating with each other.   The sound builds back up as well, a little bit of rattling like the way I had that nostalgic feeling on the song before this.

As the sound continues to build these notes come through with a pattern which feels partly like the Seven Dwarfs going off to work (that whole hi-ho thing) or possibly just being off to see the wizard.  Either way, it carries this nice rhythm which eventually gets blasted out by the light tones, but then comes back.   One big, final wave comes through to blast everything out and then the sound just fades to nothing.