If I described Doom Lounge’s debut double single, “Cairns/Capela Dos Ossos” as “Morricone writing film scores for shootouts in Ibiza nightclubs”, then the new one, “The Human Barrens” is perhaps that legendary screen scorer writing the music for a David Lynch adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, which sadly never got made.
Okay, enough of the clever “what ifs?” Let’s deal with what is. And what we have here is a beguiling instrumental balancing act, part chiming, futuristic, liquid electronica, part low-slung, from-the-hip, resonant rock and roll guitar salvos.
It’s a combination that shouldn’t really work, and perhaps in the hands of an ordinary, less imaginative music maker, it wouldn’t. But Jared Rosenbaum is someone with more vision and creativity than most, and so he cocoons the digital in the analog, he wraps the beguiling beats and pulses in big guitars, and he allows the old musical sounds and the new sonics to wash around each other, acting as integral parts of the whole but somehow still sounding slightly apart.
And the sound he creates is perfect for the almost unearthly landscape he takes as his inspiration —those places where life seems to have abandoned all hope, and existence itself feels like an act of rebellion or perhaps even a miracle. And if the landscape that he has in his mind is one of our world, it is hardly that far removed from those of post-apocalyptic and dystopian imagination.
Dustbowl electronica meets the most sinister guitar lines imaginable! Awesome!
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