Root Coiled - The Carriage Went Flying
Released: April 12 While the certainty of the premise behind The Carriage Went Flying is murky, the aesthetics of the album are clear. Over six tracks, we are treated to a series of soundscapes that range from dense and claustrophobic to sparse and airy made through creative layering of seemingly random found sounds. It starts out with “to pry open those,” which begin rather cacophonously with the sounds of hammering, doors shutting, and a lot of other sounds that make it feel like it’s old industrial (like turn of the century manufacturing, not the genre of music). But it’s when the voices start around of the midpoint that the track takes on an extra level of surreality as the voices never seem to finish a full sentence and quickly begin to overlap each other haphazardly and making the whole thing feel ultimately chaotic and overstimulated. The next track takes that overfilled and claustrophobic sensation and puts the brakes to it. “ vast tracks” begins with a bit of ...
