Review: Aim Low – Foulards
Although Foulards only consists of two tracks, Duodenum (9:55) and Black Molasses (12:10), the EP succeeds in demonstrating exactly what Aim Low are capable of creating in just over twenty minutes. Droning, haunting, encasing, frightening – these are all words appropriate of describing the experience had when listening to Foulards.
The listener is taken through a slow build up of space and tension, featuring sounds suitable to appear in the next blockbuster sci-fi thriller. As the pieces progress, simple innocent sounds become menacing as their meanings change with the introduction of larger, overpowering sounds. By using conventional instruments such as the electric guitar in combination with effect pedals, Aim Low create a surrounding soundscape where a simple note on a guitar now becomes the distant beep of a beacon in space. Additionally, by overlapping these effected sounds, Aim Low conducts a symphony of normally unfamiliar noises to create suspense within the listener. Reverberated ticks and tocks, swirling pedal effects and more all come together to surround the listener in a 360 degree artificial space, removing him or her from reality and replacing it with the sounds and images within the EP. - Michael Langiewicz
