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Rating: The first event of the ghostofthegardencity project is preparatory, still relatively anchored in the more rarefied post rock. After all, it's the introverted work of an emo kid from the Nevada desert. The setups are poorly hidden, or even flaunted; not like Aphex Twin who listed the machines used for Syro and put it on the cover (silly), but anyway; and this ambient is all the more evocative, the more alienated the sound sources are.
For a false start, Something's Bound To Happen treats the listener well, pampering them with heavy layers of white noise. Unknown Ceilings and Huntress Hound are supported by cheap piano chimes, like from a midi keyboard with a bunch of fake effects: twenty-five minutes like this, worn down by naive digital inputs culminating in those xylophone notes that wish to play the role of natural harmonics in emo but sound horrible. The Tin Man's Axe, on the other hand, starts from a cold post rock guitar style, then sinks into a drone and is preferable.
The tone, the frequency, and the noise - there's not much of it here - save everything and stretch to adequacy. For not particularly demanding fetishists.
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