2004-10-04
History of guns’s EP, flashes of light, represents the essence of the band, confusing, weird in a way that makes you wonder, what the hell was going on inside their mind when they recorder this piece?
The EP contains only one song that goes by the name Flashes of light – part 1.
It is based on two or three tracks combined together to this one ten minute long track.
It’s kinda hard actually understanding who this guys are, the band has a keyboard player who claims that he doesn’t play anymore, a bass player who turned out to be a pathological layer and a singer that, can’t actually be referred to as a singer, and the drums section, it’s steel blurred, drummer or drum machines.
The band doesn’t exactly help revealing the identity of it’s players, some changed along the years, some came back, and as much as it’s hard to understand what’s going on with those guys, it’s just as hard to understand their music.
As it is mentioned on their website, they are not the best players in the world, and they have to go to a bar before any rehearsal because if they don’t, the sound kina lame, a great way to start a bands biography right?.
The song begins with a few vocal parts that mainly creates this uncomfortable feeling and even a bit of a terrifying mood of whatever is coming your way and there are even a few memories from pink floyds darks side of the moon album (not musically , but the voices surrounds you kinda feeling.)
There are three vocal parts, a whispering one, which adds to this feeling of unawareness and mystery, clean vocal that speaks in a king of a bad punctuation which is very disturbing and unmelodic, and at last this screaming in the background vocals which sounds like typical crazy homeless Pearson who is announcing on the forthcoming apocalypse.
When the intro ends and you are not certain of what you’ve just heard this drumloop enters in a trance kin of feeling with a tight trance bass line, and the vocals continue as background.
This hazy feeling can sweep you off your feet, but It can’t actually keep you interested for the whole ten minuets, fast enough it looses its touché and becomes long and boring,
It might be a cool track when it is splited to a few sort ones, but as whole piece, it kinda losses it’s atmosphere, though, I must give them some credit for creating that psychedelic feeling for a while.
Roy Povarchik
