Liz Christine: Sweet Mellow Cat (flau, 2012)
September 14, 2013 at 7:46 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment
Liz Christine: Sweet Mellow Cat
Dream-like collage utilizing piano loops, found sounds, nature sounds, dialogue, music box-like melodies, and lots of animal sounds, particularly dogs, frogs and cats. The cats don’t particularly sound that mellow, actually, they sound kind of irritated sometimes. There’s not a whole lot of logic to this album, it’s very fluid and random and structureless, and that is fine by me. Not a whole lot in the way of beats or rhythm, except the bluesy slide guitar and slowly shifting electronic beats on “Dinah”. A few tracks have eerie dialogue samples saying “I love you”, or talking about loving something. Tracks like “Or Ten Pills AT Three O’Clock” and “C Caterina”, with glitched/warped easy listening samples/loops, definitely remind me of People Like Us, but without referencing obvious songs or melodies, as PLU often does. There seems to be an unnerving layer of hiss and static during the later songs on this album. And the disc ends very suddenly with a slap and a shout, much like something sharp occurring in a dream can quickly snap you awake.
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