[€5 to download //€12 for record // Edition of 100 // http://rvnes.bandcamp.com/album/all-men-are-prey-to-the-same-beast]
While I have previously heard and reviewed RVNES I'm not sure I've ever heard MASS before. As I looked at these tracks I was trying to figure out which one went with which artist before remembering it was a collaboration (duh!) so that does make it a bit more interesting I'd say.
Right away this begins with some quieter background static and then the screams come out and random times. The background tones of some aura do manage to pick up, as if to send us up and into the heavens, and I'm being reminded of I Like You, Go Home because of the screaming. This takes on an almost eerie feeling, like a cemetary, as it drones on through. We've gone from something in that uplifting sense to more of a realization and the screams do come back again after a short break as well.
As the first track gets closer to the end it does come out a bit heavier as well. It's not so much that everything is falling apart or coming crashing down it's just the fact that it's all happening so quickly and all at once it would seem. Everything you were feeling before about either dying or fear is just being escalated.
The second side begins like the first only without the screaming. It's that foggy type of basement feel like you might find yourself stuck in during video game play. Eventually, yes, the screams do come back but they seem muted at first, as if in the distance rather than at the forefront they were before. As the music grows louder it almost becomes industrial, mechanical.
Interestingly enough this was put out as a record by An Out Recordings who also happen to have released the cassette I do like ever so much by Anna Vo called "The Condition". Small world, eh? Whether or not you're a fan of vinyl you should be looking for this one to own in a physical sense because, well, RVNES, you know?
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