Saturday, July 21, 2012

Songs about fish


Monterey Babe Aquarium - Monterey Babe Aquarium
Weird Forest #73


Also known as the "Blue Eye Tang," the Twospot Bristletooth grows to roughly eight inches in length and is recommended for aquariums 100 gallons or larger. In the wild, the fish eats unicellular algae and other detritus, but in the aquarium, it can subsist on algae-based diets.

Monterey Babe Aquarium’s "Twospot Bristletooth" is recommended for rooms 100 square feet or larger. The song is heavily layered and expansive and billowy. On Monterey Babe Aquarium's self-titled cassette, the songs' foundations are these painfully simple synthesizer melodies—melodies the California trio is supremely confident will be winners! because they are infinitely repeated throughout. Blanketed around these melodies is something akin to sonic chaos—a peculiar, lo-fi, celestial din, like a disc was cut out of the black-and-starlight-pricked canvas of the interstellar void and then the disc was played on an old crank phonograph and then the sounds were captured for this track.

On "Aquamarines," the chaos/din/noise is stuffed into every nook and cranny in the melody and electronic drum beat and during the conclusion, the chaos/din/noise begins to bulge and swell, and overwhelms the song's other parts. You will hear this and certainly not think of fish. You will not think of anything.

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