July 15, 2009

When you start to dive through the legions of underground artists and music out there you tend to find more and more stuff that is obscure and completely left of the mainstream dial. For 19-year old Nathan Carpenter he is one of those artists that you will find at the end of the spectrum. With his debut album “No Friend.Sin.The Ground,” Carpenter has explored routes that have taken the listener deep into his soul while maintaining a dark quality to the presentation. Backed by acoustic instrumentation Carpenter allows his vocals to deliver the messages. You can sense his pain for example as he wails through “Howl,” and if you are in the dark when listening to the album, cuts like “Skeleton Danse” are going creep you out enough that you will turn on a light as its eerie beginning will haunt you. With the low-fi styled recording on this record it ads an extra degree of charm and creepiness to the album. 99% of the time, both the vocals and acoustic guitar work has an echoey feel to them giving the album an overall feel like it was recorded in a dark dungeon somewhere out of the public eye. This is angry. This is dark and disturbing. This is not your normal mainstream fare. Nope it is none of that, this is completely different than most everything you’ve heard and captures the emotions of the lyrics perfectly throughout the album. A little more on the obscure side than I normally like, but if you dig something of that nature than this is the disc for you.

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