WHEN WE WERE TRYING TO DECIDE IF WE WERE THE SAME OR NOT (2010)
PLANT MAGIC MAN explodes.
The shortest and last of the DOGSON 2008-2010 RECORDINGS series, is an explosion of noise, rhythms and melodies, that rips through it's 7 minute run time.
The title track, "When We Were Trying to Decide if We Were The Same Or Not" is a pounding rhythmic song, layered in clangs, dreamy guitar, and shimmering loops underneath erie splintering vocals that can feel as if they can barely be held together.
The second half of the album is broken into "the letter songs" DHJSK and SDKJA.
DHJSK starts with sputtering hi-hats, and disparate clangs before a piano chimes in, while guitars accent in a echo-y bath of distortion. Maracas and vocals fill in the space, while the sound bounces around underneath the brief one line lyrics.
The piano heavy album closer SDKJA, starts organically enough with trademark Plant Magic Man vocals before exploding into a mysterious chorus of child like voices. From there the song ignites into a steady electronic propelled cacophony, with a nice surprise start stop finish that shows of some Hip-Hop influences.
All in all the album shows the Plant Magic Man arrow pointing up, and finds him at his most layered, rhythmic and complex.
Recorded March 2010.
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