Wold "Postsocial"

Today's album was recommended by Pitchfork. It is Wold's Postsocial.

1. "Throwing Star". I had to check my headphones input a couple of times to make sure that it was actually plugged in. It is. This first track is disorienting. Wolf Eyes-ish with metal vocals. I'm not sure if there is a drummer, or someone just shaking a piece of plywood. According to that Pitchfork review, Wold is a band that relocated to Rhode Island from Saskatchewan. I have summarized this move in pictures!

2. "Inner Space Infirmary". It's hard to really describe what's going on. It's like your stuck in a crowded bus terminal while experiencing swimmer's ear. I've never experienced swimmer's ear, so maybe I'm making that up. Everything is kind of muffled. It's probably the soundtrack of our new postsocial world. Eventually one voice breaks through your inability to hear and you realize this new voice is upset about something. Or everything. Maybe his bus trip was cancelled. Pitchfork claims that Wold is fronted by something named Fortress Crookedjaw.  That is pretty great.

3. "Five Points". This one starts with the singer screaming five points over and over again. It sounds like the screams are coming through an old television that sits in the basement of an abandoned house that turned on by itself. There is something urgent about these five points.

4. "Spiral Star Inversion". Eventually you get on your bus, and it leaves the terminal. The problem is there is no driver. When you look out the window, there's really not any scenery. You're definitely going somewhere, but it's impossible to make out where exactly. That same screaming voice emerges again. Is this the bus driver? There is some sort of weird conversation going on in this song. It's between the evil bus driver and possibly the evil bus driver's mother? It is definitely schizophrenic.

5. "Sapphire Sect of Tubal Cain". Somehow made it to the last track. Tubal Cain is a biblical name I guess. He's a descendent of Cain, and worked with metal, possibly making weapons for war. 

This album is great. If you like experiments with noises, this would work.

Grade: 5 out of 5 decapitated goats

Top Tracks: 

1. Spiral Star Inversion

2. Five Points

3. Inner Space Infirmary