I am at a total loss when it comes to Midnight Window Screen. Online
search engines take me to Lowe’s, Home Depot, Ace Hardware, and other companies
specializing specifically in screens for your home. But that’s not what I’m
looking for, Bing! That’s not what I’m asking about, Jeeves! I want to know
more about these Midnight Window Screen folks who make music, the ones who’ve
released Orange Achievement into this
world. Why won’t you help me out, just a little?
I guess I’ll have to do all the heavy lifting myself, then. MWS is a
“band,” ostensibly, in that it looks like there are three people in play here,
although their photographic likeness is smeared with paint on the j-card. The
trio (I’m just gonna lean into it) dons a meditative fedora for the most part,
although “Infinities of Black” begs to be called noise, what with that piercing
frequency. But in general, synth tones mix it up with soft drums, while
vocalizations happen back there in the mix somewhere. Side B hits a few more
noise notes again with low-pitched seismic rumblings, but these are simply
grumbly textured passages rather than ear shredders. And while “Pure Tibet”
wants to close this thing out with lovely ambience, it gives way to the
10-minute “Cobwebs and Memories,” which sort of wants that, but sort of doesn’t
– the drums clatter like far-off thunderclaps that ride the vibe all the way to
the end of the line.
So in the end, Midnight Window Screen seems like a singular, focused
entity, and it plays like that too. MWS combines fascinating elements and
emerges unique. Hard to do, people!
https://personalarchives.bandcamp.com/
--Ryan
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