- Drone
- Drone rock
- Avant-garde
- Avant-rock
- Electro-acoustic
- Experimental rock
- Minimalism
- Ambient
drone
- Abstract
Comment: Detroit,
US-based Pat Callow under
the nom de plume Auger Shell
did have released all his three items under the Netherlands-based
Rack And Ruin Records which
has been
activated in a span of 2008-2011.
At RMH
Holdstill Ocean is
previously reviewed
as a wondrous drift between experimental electronic/glitched-out
developments,
shoegaze/post-rock, minimalism
and ambient music.
The Narrows as the
title suggests got more
narrow or restricted. Mostly it chimes like a hard rocker who finally
got sick of his lengthy,
honoured
career as the player of decent riffs and moderate gears being played
day after day decided to develop more naughty and experimental
offshoot. Indeed, all those gears and riffs are proudly represented
over there yet played heavily through echo chambers and
effect/control panels (it
looms as if the guitar was pushed to a remote distance).
At times (at its more austere and abstract moments) it is just a
pure example of drone and
ambient when
the format is overwhelmed by
a pulsating, coil-alike pattern,
at its more exuberant moments the 3-track outing can be described
with the prefix “rock”. Sometimes
the artist opens the door to let the more or less determined sounds
go out and mingle with
surrounding
ambiance.
At times the soundscape gets
more blurred due to swapping
the accents with hisses and
noises. For sure, the outing
is enough a struggle to get through (for the listener it does mean
many subsequent listening times).
You can find out this issue
under the
number 073
in the discography of Rack And Ruin Records.
