Cassette Review // Death Pyre "Concatenation" (Public Eyesore Records)
This cassette begins with the sounds of intergalactic lasers which come in with drones. This feels like somewhere between a video game and a signal for help from space. Beeping and buzzing come through static until it sounds like The Flight of the Bumblebee with harmonies. This stop and we begin with muted beeping and static bursts. This portion, which I feel we've gone into the second song on Side A now, feels like it's mechanical.
While this can carry all of the sounds of a lightsaber, it can also sound like two swords smashing together while someone is singing behind it. A little jingle and this could be a rather desolate guitar riff. Winding down and back up again, this just feels like such a whirlwind. Is this what it means to gleam the cube?
The singing in this now feels somewhat haunted, somewhat like the type of sound you might hear as you are being brought to your final resting place. Lasers are firing shots behind this all as well. Static also comes through in this deep bass way, just pushing past everything else to create this sound. In a lot of ways, this just feels like a space funeral, with all of the bells and whistles. This all reaches an abrupt end but it is not when the cassette actually ends that it cuts off, it just does that as a sound with some tape left to play.
Onto the flip side now and this begins with more bass, which makes it feel more industrial. Someone can be heard saying "Yeah" and then there are other people talking as if they were recorded somewhere in public or just as some form of audio clip. A little bit of scraping through the straw now, but those Pole Position-type bass synths still continue. A jingling, stomping cowboy boots perhaps. Spoken words come through now, but more like poetry.
Deeper vocals now and then a rattling as if someone has dropped a coin. This feels like it has dropped off and is circling around into the abyss. These vocals are masked- you could say that they're "screwed"- but they will always remind me of Satan. The music begins to spin around now, like that one Willy Wonka ride that got a little bit too carried away. Somehow this all takes us back to those distorted, higher pitched guitar notes which are leaning a little closer to Hendrix now.
We get into singing now as this turbine cuts through, spinning. One of the lyrics just said something/someone "doesn't care about us". There are also some vocals in here which have this sort of "buh-buh" sound to them repeating. Vocals come through now with that filter that make them sound like NASA, as when someone took their first steps on the Moon. They aren't saying "One small step" though, they're saying "I don't think you understand". This all comes together to where it eventually just feels like we are truly losing our minds in space.
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