Chris Irregardless - Worn Down To The Rope
Released: July 31 As a purveyor of strange sounds, I was a little surprised by the latest release from Florida-based Chris Irregardless. His album previous to this was a rather noisy and intense album in terms of dynamics and arrangement. Conversely, Worn Down To The Rope is far more subdued and slow in many parts, though there is still a fair amount of organized cacophony to be heard throughout. Much of this organized cacophony comes from some rather unusual bell and chime type of sounds. The first two tracks feature this pretty heavily, with “Static in the Garden” starting out with a persistent bell, clanging moderately as windswept soundscapes rough and wail softly in the background. The track that follows, “Sweet Meteor of Death 1981,” adds to this with the addition of an old-school phone ringing sound, like a very old one. The windswept soundscape is not present here, instead replaced by a haunting and soft pad in the background. From this point, the bells d...
