Tsunami

Adjust your volume accordingly; this track starts with a ferocious bang. Makes sense due to the fact that Tsunami was composed to commemorate the 2005 tragedy. After the opening sonic blast, the music all put disappears, holding its breath. Eventually the garbled mummers of Thomas Buckner’s voice emerge from the shadows of Mel Graves’s droning bass. Then the texture begins to build, until it sounds like George Marsh is banging on every suspended cymbal he can possibly get his hands on. Hell brakes loose from there as the trio crams the sonic texture with every extended technique known to man. Once the kitchen sink overflows, the music begins to dissipate, becoming somewhat introspective as water begins covering the floors and creeping up the walls, shorting out the refrigerator.

—RN