This is an ambient one! It’s a 5-track EP/mini album, and of such abstract nature that it’d be hard to put a shape to.
Cello strings and piano melancholy combine with church bell samples in this experimental release making the music sound like a reflection in a muddy lake. Electronic bleeps and synth noises add an air of long deserted, possibly haunted valleys.
Self-titled track ‘The Late Cord’ is the original stuck record, with murmured groaning vocals covering a scratchy loop. The cello arrangement in ‘Chains/Strings’ requires your classical attention, and even then is found wanting, though the instrument offers brief respite from the soulless dirge that surrounds it.
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The piano is played in the style of a grade one pupil on Death Row. The voice is that ‘can’t sing’ octave below even the low hammering of the keys.
Hate dishing out negative opinions, but I’ve listened to this over and over, and had hold of it for ages, and I’m of the opinion that it’s lame.
http://www.thelatecord.com/
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