Labels: Housepig – Inam
Review by: Captain Fidanza
There is currently one copy of this album for sale on Discogs and it will cost you £5.17, which is quite an unusual price, but I suppose if the postage and packaging charge was 83p, it would make it up to a round £6 which is a bit easier to deal with.
This record begins with a big noisy noise which soon becomes a monotone before switching to many other forms of electronic drone styles. At times I thought it sounded like the sort of music Michael Mann would use in an episode of Miami Vice if he was making the show now rather than twenty five years ago. With all it’s grinding and whining it made me feel a little anxious at times, which would be perfect if I was watching Crockett speeding through the night in the white Testarossa in a desperate attempt to reach Calderone’s villa before he discovered that Tubbs was wearing a wire.
At other times, the record sounded like a Dan Deacon b-side which would be fine for anyone who found Spiderman of the Rings insufficiently frightening, but for anyone preferring a more relaxed form of music as they restocked the shelves of the mobile lending library, it’s probably time to look elsewhere.
I’ve always thought the word “drone” should have a few more letters in it. It just looks too neat and concise, sitting there with only five letters; I heard something on Radio 4 yesterday about some crackpot who wants to introduce a new whole number between one and ten and though at the time I thought he should be taken outside for some fresh air, now I’m listening to Olekranon, I’m thinking he might have a point. Let’s have a new whole number and few more letters in the word “drone,” it’s high time we had a bit of a shake up of things and that sounds like the perfect place to begin. I will get the ball rolling below and you can get on board should you so wish.
Experiment One
1 2 3 4 5 6 “¡ 7 8 9 10
Experiment Two
Dronnnnne
That wasn’t too hard was it ?