Entry 273 - Milk Outside a Bag of Milk, Outside a Bag of Milk...

 

I'll get this done and over with. This album is strange... exceedingly so. The full soundtrack to this game is about 4 hours long and here we have about 40 minutes of it in a selection. The curation was apparently done between the label and the artist... the end result is fascinating.

To call this record musical would be slightly misleading. I think its more a collection of notes and atmospheres. There are certainly parts of the album that do contain musical elements, but they are repeated in such a way that they aren't necessarily music.

The remaining parts of the album shrug off any sort of musical identity altogether. These sections range from a deep disturbing tone that resonates over a few minutes, a guitar that simply can't seem to form a riff, to near silence. It's these moments that are truly eerie and unsettling... they often go on for so long that it becomes almost awkward. They do overstay their welcome and I think that is entirely the point.

This is one of those albums that treads the line between noise, music, and something else. It's that something else that makes this album so fascinating to me. While it is a game soundtrack (a game I have yet to play), the album itself is worth checking out simply because of how uncomfortable it all is. One of the more unique releases in recent memory.