Curtains' "Forced Thoughts on the Humdrum River" is another alter ego solo project from my friend Luis Gutierrez. Luis is not only wildly prolific but his music is surprisingly complex considering the large amount of material he writes. It sounds like it would take years to dream up such illuminated and imaginative music. Before this tape I had always thought of Luis as a drummer before anything, but his songwriting and widely reaching experiments with guitar have shown once again that he is full of surprises.
The album starts off with a monster jam of heavy drumming and vocal-drowned effects. There's some great heavy guitar work here and there, like "Treat You Like", and a lot of jams that blend cool atmosphere with the Residents, like "Yucca", "Up The Coast", "Stupid Bedsheets", and "Uhu". The whole album keeps this bubble of atmosphere like being in your bedroom on LSD drawing morbid pictures of people being tortured while blasting the Cure to try and drown out your sister's 80's pop bleeding through the wall. The album was released by Broccoli Tapes, a good friend of ours who has a lot of great releases already out and more to come.
TRACK LIST:
- No Worries Ever
- Over The World
- Yucca
- Treat You Like
- Up the Coast
- 11 Weekly Lows
- DOWNSTAIRS
- Coming in Third
- Talk About Old Nows
- Stupid Bedsheets
- Uhu
- Lower Strata (Internet Only)
- I'm Ready (Internet Only)
- Moons (Internet Only)
The Artist's Page.
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