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Taught Me:
Ready to Go Under
Ready to Go Under by Taught Me is quite an interesting listen. It starts off with the title track, a short instrumental that pairs some gentle noise with a bit of piano, resulting in an atmospheric sound. By the time Things That Really Matter kicks in, it seems that the album will take a more electronic course from here on out. Its honestly hard to tell where some of the noises here are coming from, but most instruments (excepting some violin and a few stray guitar pieces) seem electronically processed or reprocessed in some way. It brings to mind the mood in Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn, certainly a strange album. The songs continue to change between an acoustic guitar base and digital noises in rather abrupt ways, almost as if the only reason for the acoustic instruments is to help relax you into a state where the band can startle you with something weird or noisy all over again. The approach is reminiscent of the classic Pink Floyd transition as On The Run jumps into Time. Taught Me can be a little more subtle than that perhaps, but they occasionally use a similar idea. The album makes for an interesting listen, simply because you never really know where a song is headed. After getting through a few tracks, this sense of uneasiness as a listener tends to stick, and I think in some way, this must be what Taught Me is trying to achieve. As far as the vocals go, I do have to admit there is a tendency to whine at times. Its obviously intentional, because a song like Someone, Somewhere has a period of quiet vocal screeching that contributes to the uneasy mood. Combining this vocal style with the music makes a few of the songs fairly uncomfortable to the listener, but again this mood seems deliberately constructed. A song like More stands up fairly well as a strong mix of the albums different sounds, but it is hard to know exactly what to take away from the album. If youre searching for a work that has a unique sound eluding simple classification, you might want to give this one a spin.
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