Music Review // CHEFKIRK and Carl Kruger "Mountain Muck" (Falt)
This begins like a slow build into some electronic insects. Beeping comes in now, making it feel like a hospital even though there is still that gradual swarm. Into a deeper bass drive now, like the purring of an engine but you can hear that wind blowing behind it. While there is this feeling between animals and car horns in here, there also feels just like a chainsaw is in the distance. The droning becomes more like a church organ as it sits in front of this sound. I'm not sure if the birds are in here or outside my window in real life. It is winter though, so I do feel like those nature sounds are more likely in the music.
The third song begins like a steady engine running with a little bit of squealing, but there is also just that electric bug energy hanging over it all still. Some of the static begins to cut through, like a bugzapper. Some sounds now in the background, just causing a commotion. It all begins to move with this droning now, as if we're about to take off into space. That all comes to a head and we go into this glass ringing type sound on the next track, which also has these nature sounds (like birds, but more) going on behind it. There is also a slight sharpness in here, which makes it feel like a hypnotic ray.
A rhythm comes through like percussion now and you can hear these insects like whistles. A really sharp tones cut through it all as well, just as the pace is picking up on the fifth track and it feels like we could be going into a more dance groove. Synth is dropping into the deep bass like a lightsaber. This can also feel as if it is excelerating, such as Pole Position. That loudness and feeling of it being sharp cuts off and we go into a quieter track on 6, which gives you that feeling kind of like when your ears pop but not quite. It's a softer sound now, feeling like we're stepping or just little dots of electronics with an ambient drone behind it. Birds return and this is perhaps the most minimal and quiet song thus far.
The seventh song drops in with more of an industrial feel. It can also just feel like a less harsh modem. Birds are once again here and then there is a somewhat harsh sound coming through again, kind of like a drill. This sound, overall, just seems to find a way to make you think it can be calming but then something happens during it that instead puts you on edge. Some of this feedback just makes it feel as if we're reaching a screeching halt here. A beat drops with some ringing and the next song takes us into tales of suspense. If this was played at the right volume for dogs it could be torture, but little things like this over the years also isn't helping anyone's hearing. This can also just feel like it's trying to send a distress signal somehow.
Pieces of this feel like forgotten and broken technology, like when you're stranded on an island and suddenly find a radio so you try and use it to see if you can call for help. But some of this also just paints such a suspenseful picture that I enjoy. I wonder if this is what a score might sound like if Alfred Hitchcock had created "Gilligan's Island". The final song comes through in waves, little ones at first and then it just completely takes over with the slight beeping behind it. Perhaps the distress we have felt has only come to an end in our demise.
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