The White Mare is experiential ambient noise rock at its peak. There are themes and tones explored by this artist that you might not be able to equate with anyone out in the indie scene. Featured in several dark/ambient playlists for the intriguing effects that envelope the music, prepare to dive into a parallel projection. This is the latest album, Earth is a Prison.
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“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.” This is what The White Mare seems like a picture out of. If Earth is a prison, maybe this music is an escape for a while. The Cause of Entropy combines spoken word monologues with the crushing distortion and singular note that echoes. The effect is almost disorienting, creating a doom filled soundscape for the songs we will experience. Try to look at these songs with visuals in your mind, and you will find sense in them. I Don’t Know How But I am Going to Blame You For all of my Problems uses the shuffling distortion with the running machinery that phases around you. As the monologue and machine sync, you find yourself waiting for the next stimulation.
Ruptures in the simulation
Noise rock like this combines a palette of various ambient sounds with distortions that assign to some frequency. As you reach Life on This Earth is Brief, you’re subjected to a disco like distortion in the background. You associate, with every word that is being said, the industrial effect in full flow. Would You Be Rather Confronted by a Lie or Strengthened by the Truth falls into place after. The whispers might disorient you in places, and that is its intent. Mystery is held within the arched composition of a song like this. You Wanted to Be Beautiful on the Inside Didn’t You comes after a transition. A lot of the music lies in the gaps as well. The ambient sounds are a stretch of vibration from Earth, making for a haunting departure. As the overlaps get louder, you get absorbed in the dissonance The White Mare creates.
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Undo the lies told
The constant clockwork and high-pitched echo of Understand that Life Is Meaningless And We Must Take Pleasure Where We Can comes in. There is a contrast, of sound and meaning, in whatever The White Mare composes. It is music like this that makes you ponder, think and wonder in this situational illusion that wraps us around. An artist like this is creating sonic museum pieces, it is up to you to see if you understand it. EPs like The Splitsville Project VII also has a mosaic of sounds like this to weave some meaning into a very mundane existence. Follow him for more music like this, and listen to the album here:
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