YELLOW EYES
YELLOW EYES “Master's Murmur”
By Octopi Mills
What’s above will always fall,
What’s below will rise again.
All the rest is cruel and coiled.
Suspension is the king of men.
By way of Sibir Records comes something quite unique and strange. The opening track acts as an eerie yet warm piece of ambiance and goes into the title track, which is a hard to describe but falls into what we know as dungeon synth stylings. The song is quite amazing in its own right and hoarse whispers somehow making for a vocal delivery that is quite different in some manners but not those familiar with these dungeon synth stylings . Guitars are used to good end, lending an old feeling of things bygone to the song work. Deep workings, as such in "Winter Looming" unwind in excellent songcraft; with a near hallucinogenic, otherworldly feel as if one has lost time and has wandered somewhere dark and far but yet "lush" and "warm" as the promo most certainly says correctly.
There is a rising like thunder and an epic cacophony rising like ethereal forests, magistrate to lost enchantments. The bizarre gibbering and bubbling babble that rises as a fungal decor is kneaded into fall; to make some weird loaf in its wholeness and it folds in upon itself. "When Jackie's Lamps Have Shown" has a fantasy effect like something medieval or of darker ages made only a bit lop-sided by the vocals of someone who listened to too much metal somewhere, yet it shines dimly in a testament to the running time of the album and the contingency of the overall feeling. The spell work is temporarily broken as hammering drums interrupt the flow yet there are dark fantastic parts that one is treated to of bells and their merit, sadly unemployed and lost in music and place in these days. They will finally go with their "metal" stylings in an unnecessary manner that could have been avoided but the disease is brief and treatable.
"Gold Door to Blindness" has the same deep fantasy feel with lush strings that shine like electric light in gnarled hill and twisted cove, with animal and natural ambience tracked into the song. "Tremble Blue Morning" begins with beautiful synth and bright strings arranged masterfully enough, and it is with this said i must add a literary congratulation to the fellows for making something that is quite a pleasure to review; these are the good things when they come about.As I listen, I know this song will not be outdone in the breadth of this album. For once in a long time I hear something that is unlike anything else and it has the power to conjure so many ancient things that I must simply leave behind without descriptions, for it cannot be sealed…
"Garden Trick" has one lost in colors that are soft and mad like poisoned glens communicating with trooping fairies for the short duration of its own unnatural life. This one will deserve to go on the albums of the year chart and just in time. This album is strongly recommended by your author and daemon editor.