An Experimental and Addicting Record from Puddle Noir

A new release from Puddle Noir manages to deliver a scattered soiree of songwriting approaches that range from a sort of indie-pop to experimental tonalities, and it all comes in a flurry of soundscapes that can be slightly rambunctious and completely outside the box, but this is what makes the record so addicting.

The Human.wav record is the artist's approach to releasing what he created in four days in a row. So, for 4 days, he put together these songs, and in the end, this is what came out of it.

I personally love this approach because it's highly unheard of, but that's what makes this so sporadic and engaging.

Throughout this record, you have digital beats, and a lot of great guitar work that has these strangely jazz-influenced undertones, and it creates this progressive soundscape that you end up getting swallowed up by.

Listening to this full ep from start to finish is the only way to go because the songs sound strangely interconnected with each other, and if you do it this way, you get pulled into this strange and inventive atmosphere that feels wild but again, quite addicting.

The first track, "I Dunno Aliens!" breeds a bit of an electro-punk soundscape with highly distorted synths or guitars, computerized keys that add a different texture, spoken-word style vocals, and a beat that's high energy and leads the song on, giving it this added drive.

This is an excellent track to introduce the record with because it starts to give you some of the staples that you're going to hear throughout the rest of the release.

The track features sections with two layers of guitars sort of frantically jamming these jazzy, mathy riffs, and I love how those two layers seem to complement each other.

You can tell that the guitar is a key element in these tracks, and what they do is add that wildness and almost frantic appeal to a lot of sections in these tracks.

The guitar work across this whole record has this unique feel, creating an atmosphere for each track.

The vocals on this first track also carry a bit of a garage punk undertone, and there's a lot of fuzz going on, but it does have that great driving main riff that pushes the song along.

This is followed by an interlude called "Hangman l", which is under one minute and features some really cool guitar work at high speeds along with some vocals, and they still come in with layers and give a certain level of depth.

Again, this one's just an interlude and leads into the third track, "Sidewalk Stepper King", which blends this sort of '80s New Wave style beat with an indie rock guitar, but also takes those double-tracked guitar jams and puts those in there, but uses effects like delay. This creates waves of sound and intensity for the track, and I love this combination of sounds that you hear.

The most avant-garde track is its closing one, called "Sad Face". 

This song is a flowing combination of jazz and rock, Indie pop, and electronic, all melding together, and I feel like this was a great ending song to the record.

If you pop on some headphones and listen to this 15-minute release, you will be pulled into a different world. Right from that first track, you are sucked away from whatever you're doing and whatever you are, and you're put into this other atmosphere for a chunk of time.

This record is a fuzz tone garage pop and experimental, jazz-undertoned escape that really breaks boundaries and is built with fewer walls than you may be used to.

In that sense, the record is incredibly freeing. I doubt you for anything quite like this, so I suggest you listen to this one because again, if you listen to this one with headphones on, you can really take in all the layers that it has to offer.

Again, this is only about 15 minutes long, and it's completely worth your time, especially if you like off-the-wall, outside-the-box, experimental Indie music that doesn't abide by any societal or social norms whatsoever in terms of what you expect to hear.

This was colorful, edgy, slightly feverish at times, but completely fun all the way through.

Definitely take a deep dive into this record when you can and remember where you heard it first.

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