Liquor Store's Bangers is an avant-garde, audio experience created/composed by Nicholas James Price, with titles and melodies that invoke torrential and macabre notions.
"Sick Time" sounds anything but ill, even if its undercurrent remains queasy. The selection actually squeezes a sardonic smoothness, enough to act as an alternate score to Little Shop of Horrors 1960, Bucket of Blood 1959 or one of those more rambunctious Evil Dead sequels. (In other words, the composition is whimsical in its electronic tap and ominous for its eradicating determination.)
"Somber Movement" is another such case in point, but this one performs as sheer, modern baroque, a composition that might be favored by Norman Bates or Willard Stiles, which gets jazzy as it progresses. It's cool music, for sure, and not just for mamma-boy psychos and rodent guardians, but for all bold maniacs, young and old.
"Zombies" is a whole other beast. This one marches to its own drum by not shuffling along, but rather making "Somber Movement'"s jazziness into an even larger anthem. A looped, fabricated female's voice leads the track's sinister roll, describing practices and goals that only the doleful living dead could (or should) comprehend.
By its face-value title, "Busted Piano" may seem a companion piece to "Somber Movement", but it's more a vein-jammed burst. Its construction alludes to Alphonse Moreau, Frankenstein's Monster and Herbert West reanimating cold flesh. It's a booze booster, a mad rejuvenator, a shaky/stirred, liquid carol for rising denizens, stitched and/or fanged.
"The Dark of My Blood" is a further extrapolation of LQ's pressing theme: driving, morphing and renewing frayed senses from the trickling ground-floor up, as it sounds wounded and healed at the same time. It's later-day Eddie Hyde meets The Hideous Sun Demon behind a drive-in screen, where lurid shadows inspire all meek monsters to challenge the world.
Bangers does, indeed, bang like the best dark rides, and like any high-rent funhouse, it's enjoyable for its many frightful inventions.
Incidentally, the artwork featured on this post was created by Mr. Price. As one can see, these examples are as entangled as any nightmare could hope to be; and Bangers reflects their lurid intensity to the pulse-pounding peak.
Check out Liquor Store's musical stock at
https://liquorstore1.bandcamp.com/album/bangers?fbclid=IwAR0PkLfi7w8ff5xDWh69HJE2Rfq316ynbaAfvG6ftTy22CP8KoP4LFguIOo
and Price's piercing Facebook gallery at
https://www.facebook.com/nicholasjames.price.3
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