Dark Music Review – I Put A Time Bomb In Your Submarine
Written by Casey Douglass
It’s always nice when
I get pointed in the direction of a style of music that is unfamiliar
to me. I don’t like my music tastes to stagnate, but on the other
hand, it makes putting my feelings into words that much harder, not
to mention stretching my music knowledge as I try to identify how
something was done. Bearsuit Records’ I Put A Time Bomb In Your
Submarine is an album that falls firmly into this category, my
only known point of entry my previous experience of one of the
artist’s previous work (Utu Lautturi’s excellent album Nielu).
I Put A Time Bomb In
Your Submarine is a compilation of remixes from various artists
that could easily fall into any number of genre labels, from
experimental and electronic to pop and rock. There are commonalities
though. Many of the tracks feature airy vocals and short, sharp sound
samples that give the sensation of listening to sound snippets
masterfully stitched together to give the tracks a certain feeling of
rhythm and flow (Circus Juice is one track that comes to mind for
this). Many tracks make great use of ambient sound samples too, which
adds another pleasing layer to things. The tracks that do feature
vocals do so in a pop-like, hook-laden way that finds the words
worming their way into your mind.
This will be another
album review in which I don’t analyse each track, partly due to 22
being too many to make this feasible. There were a couple of
stand-out tracks that I really liked though.
The first is Doll, and
is track one on the album (or Anata Wa Sukkari Tsukarete Shimai -
Doll (Senji Niban Remix) to give it it’s full label). The
distorted, radio-like vocals and la-la-la-la-la-la mixed with the
infectious beat make this an ear-worming track if ever I’ve heard
one.
The next one that I
really liked the feel of was A Shout Away (Harold Nono/Hidekazu
Wakabayashi - A Shout Away (Stricknice Remix)). I think the mixture
of relaxed piano, variety of vocals and the sound samples used all
make this a pleasing track to listen to, with plenty for the mind to
focus on amongst the many layers. The beat is good too!
The other track I wanted to mention by name is
Circus Juice (Whizz Kid - Circus Juice (0Point1 Remix)), which I
already mentioned above. The sound snatches and instrument variety
just make it a lovely and eccentric track to listen to and I really
appreciate that in a track.
The tracks that I haven’t mentioned all have
things to like about them too of course, but these three caught my
ear.
As a whole, I Put A Time Bomb In Your Submarine
is a great value proposition, and gives the listener a great range of
music to listen to and enjoy. I’m not wholly sure it is quite my
thing, so I am not going to award it a review score, but I enjoyed my
time with it and think it is well worth checking out for any fan of
the electronic remix type genres of music.
You can visit the I Put A Time Bomb In Your
Submarine page on Bandcamp here.
I was given a free copy of the album to review.
Album Title: I Put A Time Bomb In Your Submarine
Artists: Various
Label: Bearsuit Records
Release Date: 6th
December 2014
