US artist Bryce EIMAN is an unknown entity to me, but he’s apparently a well known figure in one of the noise rock scenes in the US and a quick Google search documents that he has quite the impressive list of albums he has released by himself, as part of a collaboration or as a band member.  The EP “Perfect Fifths” dates back to 2013, and is Eiman’s contribution to US label Silber Records ongoing “5 in 5” conceptual series of EPs.

Eiman’s five tracks in five minutes is one of several productions in this series that abandon common conceptions about melodies and harmonies. We’re treated to one instance of nervously fluttering drones fairly light in tonal range, a dark rhythms based affair that sounds like a machine chugging away at it’s task, lessening in intensity towards the end, one construction of echoing sounds like from an underground cavern, supplemented with a dark drone to create an unnerving atmosphere, one hectic to the point of frantic rhythms construction with a dark dronelike fluctuating texture beneath and at last a creation consisting of breathing like sounds, light toned reverbs with a darker fluctuating drone beneath, concluding with a brief run of something that sounds like a copy machine hard at work. This latter details that may or may not be the same as what came across as the aforementioned breathing noise when blended with the additional textures present in the earlier phases of this brief piece.

Some of these numbers are more compelling than others, a matter of personal taste presumably. I tend to favor music with a darker tinge to it, and hence it is the middle three of these five soundscapes that evoked a greater interest in me. Still, it is an accomplished creation of it’s kind, and those with an interest in music defined by noise, drones and textures rather than melodies and harmonies will most likely find this EP to be of interest.

My rating: 72/100