You’re warned from the start: Oscilloghost
isn’t for the weak-willed, it’s for the truly hearty, those whose
constitutions can withstand a fright or two. And Dogs Versus Shadows, aka Lee
Pylon, lays it on thick, the suspense I mean, letting the spirits occupy his
synthesizer rigs and just get all gooey in there with the ectoplasm and the
wisps of whatever ether they’re made out of. Maybe they’re just figments of
ESP, but they sure sound real. They sure sound like they’re hovering just on
the other side of the physical plane, waiting for the right moment to bend
reality to their will and manifest.
Lee Pylon allows them to manifest.
Yeah, he’s like a medium or something, channeling otherworldly
entities, sometimes like an actual witch or whatever, sometimes like Steven
Spielberg when he mixes childhood wonder and horror in equal measure. At any
rate, the tones and tales are real, the experiments in sonic parapsychology
teasing out the creepily visceral and wondrously ethereal simultaneously. It’s
easy to get lost in the inky blackness of a winter woodland, wandering restlessly
as you search for meaning. Dogs Versus Shadows provides the soundtrack for
that, and maybe it turns out that – spoiler alert, Jack! – you’re the one who’s
the Oscilloghost after all. Wouldn’t
that be a scrumptious twist!
https://dogsversusshadows.bandcamp.com/
https://thirdkindrecords.bandcamp.com/
--Ryan
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