Review Summary: Sounds your television and computer would make if they smoked crack-cocaine and had a threesome with the internet.
You either get it or you don’t.
Unfathoms makes a bold and impressive debut with an eleven track demo that clocks in under four minutes. Without following any particular musical structure, Da Lowd Noiz fully embraces its avant-garde and experimental characteristics. The project might more greatly stand as an emblem, as being a big “f*** you” to conventionalism in music than it does at being an effectively compelling composition. But within the work presented on the album, it seems as if Unfathoms makes no apologies about presenting music that refuse to adhere to conformity.
In its debut musical project, Unfathoms makes ear-rape appealing. It gets slightly soulful in the 18 second “Part 2,” electronic glitches almost seem to playfully imitate a saxophone. “Part 8” is a seven second temper tantrum, and “Part 9” and “Part 10” briefly sets the stage for the orgasmic shrill of “Part 11.”
To many music lovers the album will remain unlistenable, but to fans of experimental music it will be a re-livable journey into three minutes of frantic white noise. And as sadomasochistic as it may seem, once “Part 11” ends, it may have some listeners begging for more.
