DREAMLAND
Underwater (Dogfingers)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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Layered atmospherics with lots of quiet, minimal guitar looped on itself, with the occasional flute and vocals and something called a "whale bass," which I assume is the instrument on this that sounds like a whale. The songs are all quiet and peaceful and melancholy, with less than five or six notes used in each song, save for one track: I Frequency, Dreams in Soundwaves, which is kind of spooky and tense and features weird droning vocals that sound just like when a little kid is pretending to be an airplane, rising in pitch through the song as though the vocalist is running around with his arms out, getting ready to hurdle into the air. It's kind of a distracting image to have in your head, and made me giggle uncontrollably the first time I heard it.

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© 2002 - Holly Day